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With Carly Fiorina As Running Mate, Cruz's H-1B Stance Now In Question (computerworld.com)
dcblogs quotes a report from Computerworld: In 2013, Sen. Ted Cruz emerged as one of the Senate's top H-1B visa supporters, and argued for a 500% visa cap increase. But during his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Cruz had a conversion. Cruz's presidential platform proposed a $110,000 minimum wage for visa workers, among other restrictions, as a way of ending their use as low-cost labor. The move marked a complete turnabout on the H-1B issue. Cruz's decision Wednesday to add former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his running mate if he wins the nomination, may make his newly found H-1B beliefs a hard sell. At HP, Fiorina was a prominent supporter of the offshore outsourcing model, said Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at Howard University. "To pump up profits, she was an early adopter of the practice, which given HP's status as a leading Silicon Valley firm, pushed other firms to adopt offshoring," said Hira. As offshoring gained, Fiorina played a leading role in defending globalization. To make her point, in 2004, Fiorina said: "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore," reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
H1-B is bringing in guest workers to the United States, but keeping the work in house.
Offshoring is simply moving the work to a foreign country.
The article and summary seem to have confused the two.
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
Compaq was a good buy. That she mis-managed the opportunity doesn't mean the purchase was necessarily a bad thing. The HP servers were falling, and with them the more profitable professional services. Compaq had a better server line, and the popular servers these days are descendants of Compaq, not HP server lines. So without Compaq, HP would have been even worse off. It's just that the inability to act on the good acquisition makes it look like a bad move. Given the other blunders at the time, how is one able to tell which blunder lead to which bad result?
The unforgivable sin was the damage to the handhelds (including calculators).
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All you have to say is: "There is no applicant that fulfills my requirements, I promise" and for good measure you make up a job posting with requirements such as 10 years of experience with Exchange 2016 and a minor in archeology. That's literally the extent of the H1B and the lottery only applies if your company needs more than a certain amount of workers per year, I forgot the exact limits. If you need only a few workers, you're guaranteed to have the applicant you want, it's less than an hour of paperwork and far less issues with HR (it's a modern slave trade).
Where I work we regularly hire through H1B, we pay 35k/y for a PhD from China or Eastern Europe and as an added benefit we/they get a fast track through the green card and permanent resident process later on, in comparison we pay 125k/y and relocation costs for similar degrees from American sources.
500% increase would be 1.25 million H1B's/year on top of the 'regular' .25M work immigrants through other methods such as Visa's.
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Well since the late 90s american law firms have taught companies how to disqualify american workers for jobs and get in H1Bs instead. A Pittsburgh firm famously got on Youtube for a seminar were they did that. It hasn't stopped. In my region it's gotten so bad for H1Bs that there are barely any large companies that have american IT workers, at the same time myself and hundreds of others who have applied for some of these jobs were not hired. While I can't tell what rate those workers are then paid, what exactly do you suppose is the reason to discriminate against american IT workers?
we are all invisible unless we choose otherwise
And Fiorina ran HP, and via mergers, Compaq and DEC into the ground and perpetuated the off shoring nonsense that helped destroy major parts of the tech industry in the US back then.
As much of a nazi demagogue as Trump is, Cruz and his minion are even worse. Sucks that the Dem candidate likely to win that nomination is a corrupt cunt.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
Anyway, there is no reason to expect Ted's position on this to change because of Carly. VP candidates typically have zero input on policy.
Biden - *IAA. Cheney - Halliburton. The last two VPs had strong connections to certain lobbies and those lobbies did well during the tenure of those VPs.
She also made Lucent what it is today. Let's never forget Lucent.
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could not agree more. worked at HP during the fiorina days. Left before she was fired luckily. All my friends there put up a party when she was fired. That's how motivating she was. She had an ego and a face the size of a horse (and still does from the looks of it). Huge portrait of herself at HQ, treating Hewlett's nephew like a pariah and pretty much gutting the HP way. She was a terrible leader and a disgustingly bad motivator. She should be running for congress, not president!
If China required unemployment insurance, health insurance, retirement plans, caps on hours a person was allowed to work
In China, under the Social Insurance Law both employers and employees are required to make contributions (at different rates) to a pension fund, unemployment insurance fund and medical insurance fund, as well as the Housing Provident Fund. Employers, but not employees, are also required to contribute to the work-related injury and maternity insurance funds.
Under the Chinese Standard Working Time System, workers shall not work more than 8 hours a day and shall not work more than 40 hours a week; workers have at least one day off per week.
To the extent that labor costs less in China, it is due to the massive surplus of rural labor moving into urban manufacutring zones. However China's GDP per worker is only 17% that of the USA due to less capital per worker being available for productivity. But capital investment continues in China, worker productivity is growing, and wages are growing - especially as the surplus rural labor pool runs out.
The law already requires that an H-1B be paid more. The problem is that there are ways around that where you don't put them in an "equal" position.
For instance, Acme Widgets decides that instead of paying its own IT workers at $80,000 apiece, it'll just contract out its IT work to a company like Infosys or Tata. That company just happens to employ lots of H-1Bs as its workers for contracts, making $40,000 each, but it tells Acme they'll work for an FTE rate of $50,000, saving Acme $30,000 per worker. No workers were directly replaced, so they get away with it.