I remember when Java was the first language to do this. Shortly after that, C# was the first language to do this. Now PHP is the first language to do this. So who will be the next one to do it first?
THAT is what the summary should say. Not that it "...is designed to be remotely provisioned by mobile network operators with subscription information and is globally interoperable across all carriers, device makers a..." Gahhh Editorssss!!!!
Part of the problem is that people can't detect BS. The other part is that they don't care. Once people have chosen a side, they tend to ignore information that disproves their assumed position. How do we deal with that problem?
I see a bit of a decline in online stores coming soon, not limited just to Amazon, because they have pushed the consumer too far. Here is why:
1. They are selling too much low-quality crud: There are classes of items I can no longer buy online, because I have a 50/50 chance of getting a product other than what I actually ordered. Many e-commerce sites are copying the Amazon model of putting items on their sites, even if they aren't products the company sells directly. I can't buy USB cables, batteries, flash memory cards, or really any OEM parts online any longer. Even if the Amazon or Newegg store says it is an actual Samsung product, odds are good that I will actually get is a rip-off. I bought a rustproof aluminum part from Lowes, only to find it was actually iron so it rusted out. Now I find the same phony part at Sears.com. But it isn't actually a Sears product and it isn't in their stores.
2. They are no longer the cheapest deal in town Several years ago I just went to Amazon for anything and everything, and just assumed it was the cheapest. That's no longer true. Even without shipping, I can usually find the item cheaper somewhere else. I'm even finding retail stores are competing positively on price. Now, this isn't true for electronics by any means, but see point #1 above. I'd rather pay $50 for 4000mAh a OEM battery at BestBuy than $10 for a clone that's 2500mAh but says 4000mAh on the case.
Median-income Americans today can buy more than people of 5, 10, and 20 years ago,
20 years ago: maybe. But 5 years ago: no. I bet hat statistics showing that are using the consumer price index, which has not been accurately kept up-to-date.
The new straw runs Windows IoT embedded on an ARM Cortex A53 with 1GB of RAM. The straw contains 2 Festo 334-T3 pressure regulators that update 64,000 times per second to maintain an even flow of chocolate and shamrock. The embedded 802.11N connectivity will inform McDonald's immediately when your drink is done so it can automatically charge your credit card for another.
The linked article didn't say what the basis for the decision was. And it only applied to one driver. It does not say they had to reclassify all their drivers as employees.
Isn't all that secondary to the fact that they can work any hours you want, at any location they want, they provide your own tools, and they can turn down customers? I disagree with your assessment that they cannot turn down too many customers. They can turn down as many customers as they want by not signing in to the app. They can't sign-in to the app, mark that they are open for business, then turn down customers. But that's just being an jerk.
There's lots of professions where the fees are fixed. Consider this: If uber added a bidding process, so that prices aren't fixed, would that be enough of a change that they are now contractors?
Since you are the first potentially rational Trump supporter, I honestly want to understand your positions. Do you want a wall between the US and Mexico, and if so, why? Do you want to forgive Russia for the annexation of Crimea? Let's see..what else.... do you support ending the child care tax credit? Do you believe in global warming?
A few questions: Do you know their title? Do you know where they were working from? Or why could they not find a job locally?
Since you say you were writing software, I assume the other person was also writing software. The government should have turned down the H1B application if the person was not being paid a market rate since that is a requirement of the program. I wonder if the CTO was actually lying to you about the salary. Could it be that the remote employee was making more than you, and the CTO didn't want to tell you that? Usually, they don't talk salaries anyway. Another possibility is that he was committing fraud, and put a higher salary on the H1B application and was pocketing the difference. Fraud would be an interesting twist here.
peel off a layer of that dinosaur skin. This is happening all over.
I ask a legit question, provide examples, and it ends with ACs posting ad-hominem attacks and making unsubstantiated claims. Ugh, it's not like I'm new here, I should be used to this by now. But I just keep on trying anyway.
I had no idea that all programmers face deportation within 6 months if they get fired
Nope, just H1Bs. Also: it's 60-days, not 6 months.
What idiotic manager would not hire an employee of equal skill
Interviewing doesn't work that way. There's no such thing as equal skill. Everyone has advantages and disadvantages. Companies that are large enough to sponsor H1B visa workers aren't splitting hairs over 10% salary differences.
but who can be pressed to work longer hours without compensation
Who? Where? What field? You are just repeating the claim. I am trying to figure out who this is happening to. I know it isn't Software engineers. So who is it? Do you know any?
Thanks for the link. That's a good start. We can try to guess what the fields are from the job titles. Hmmm... This link shows it by occupation. That's interesting.
Okay, so this is painting a picture for me. There are two kinds of H1Bs. One kind is hired by a company that does actual work and makes an actual product: Apple, Microsoft, Intel. Those H1B visa workers are probably not being abused, and they probably aren't displacing American workers. Those are the kind I know. The other kind is the IT outsourcing companies like WiPro, Tata, and IGate. They are replacing American jobs with a combination of H1B visa jobs and outsourcing. I notice that the "Software developer" occupation makes >100k, and they work at places like Intel, IBM, Motorola, Apple. And the "Computer programmers" make 67k and work at Tata, InfoSys, IBM, and WiPro. IBM is in both lists, interestingly.
I wonder what those "Computer programmer" H1B visa workers are really doing? Looking at Tata's business model, how can H1B visa be justified here? That company's job is to basically put IT workers in other companies out a job by outsourcing. But if they have that many H1B visa workers, aren't they just displacing an American worker with an H1B worker?
I've heard about Tata. Is Cap Gemini that same way?
I know a local company that just outsourced most of their IT department to Cap Gemini. I know much of Cap Gemini's workforce is overseas. I've been politely listening, but so far no one has mentioned any H1B visa workers involved. Slashdot has had a few articles on the topic, but I have yet to see any real evidence that H1B was involved in these cases.
I agree about permanent residency. I work with some H1Bs who would love citizenship, and are absolutely frieking smart. We want those people! That's why I want to hear some of these H1B abuse stories. It is frustrating to need smart people, and at the same time have people decrying the H1B program that is providing us those smart people. We don't need to get rid of the program, we need to quickly find those talented ones and give an efficient path to citizenship. I want to know who is abusing these H1B visa workers. I'm pretty sure it isn't engineers, which is why I'm not seeing it.
You might not realize that your fellow employee is taking shit and grinning because they are just waiting for the greed card to come through.
So let me get this straight: I ask for evidence that H1B visa workers are abused, and the best I get is that even though I work with them, party with them, and go to church with them, secretly my boss is being an asshole to them and I don't know it. And this has been going on for 17 years without my knowledge. But an AC on the internet knows the real truth about my coworkers and my friends secret lives.
I'm looking for someone to tell me who and where H1B visas are being approved. Because I don't see it. I'm not looking for speculation, I want examples, anecdotes, SOMETHING other than anonymous cowards on the internet making unsupported claims.
I agree that Germans have an amazing work ethic. I can't speak for French. Having worked in England, I can tell you that they work 9am to 5pm, and 5:01 they hit the pubs. American's tend to work longer hours in general.
You are talking about what should happen to the best of them. What about those who are not the best, but who are still pretty good?
Why would a country go out of their way to import workers who are average? There's plenty of such people. If a country brought in average workers, then that would put a citizen worker out of a job.
You do realize that we are creating a class of people who think they must be better just to get equal treatment and who, once they get all their legal right, will retain a degree of bitterness towards those who "had it easy"?
That is false. You have never met an H1B worker.
Let me tell you about H1B workers I know: Jitu, Song, Haichuan, Anish, Bala, Tong, Dmitry, Pratima, Anjalee. Those are real names and real people, not some fictituous strawman I read about on the internet. Some of them are citizens now. Every one of them is truly grateful for being here. They love the US. They worked hard to get here and stay here. Some of them are torn: They love this country, but it is so hard to leave your home, even if it is poor or you had limited rights there. Nobody is more excited about freedom and democracy than somebody from China or Russia who came here and stayed long enough to become a citizen. It's quite inspiring to see a new Chinese citizen say "Today I learned I have the right to own a gun! That no one can take it from me, and that nobody can stop me from saying president XYZ is a @!#?@!" It reminds you what freedom and democracy is, even with all the negative political rhetoric that surrounds us.:-) It's sad too, when I asked Dmitry what it was like in Russia. He just said, quite darkly, "They don't have video games my friend." (He knew I was a gamer, so he was teasing me, but also drawing a real contrast.) He didn't like to talk about where he came from. Another guy talked about living in Germany before the wall came down. That inspiring Chinese guy just shook his head when he talked about the conditions of some of his fellow PhDs back in China. Hearing their stories gives you a lot of perspective.
I'd like to respond, but I honestly don't know what you are trying to say. I'm really confused. In your post, you seem to be saying that people should get green cards for doing nothing, and that they should not have to hold jobs. But...then your response to my post doesn't seem consistent with that. So I'm really lost. Sorry.
If they are qualified and are getting competitive wages, why would they not stay on the job?
Most probably would. But you would seriously reduce their incentive to work by giving them a green card while asking for nothing in return. Why stay in a high-skill high-pressure job when you could work at Wal-mart and get a better standard of living than you could back in your country of origin? Many of them came from places where US welfare system would be far better than their previous standard of living. But, think more sinister: If all it took was a successful interview and 1 day on the job to get a green card, then they would setup a mill: A smart guy interviews, gets the job, then unqualified guy comes over in his/her place, takes the job, and gets the green card. They actually do this today! But once they are fired they have 60 days to find something else or they are deported. In your scenario, they are here for good.
A deal doesn't work if one party gets everything, and has no obligation to hold-up their end of the deal.
Oh, and since they pay taxes, why shouldn't they be on the same track to citizenship as other resident aliens?
I think we agree here. They should be on the same track. But by definition, H1-B is a temporary worker. The reality is that the US needs certain classes of workers, and they aren't temporary if they stay for 5 years. If they are highly-skilled highly-educated workers, we should do everything we can to keep them here. Personally, I'd rather make a path for the H1Bs to become citizens, than to give green cards or citizenship to unskilled workers who sneak in and have kids here.
Why should they not have a right to vote for mayors and city councils of the communities where they live for an extra 5-6 years that it takes them to get green cards?
This is a general civics question and I suggest you do a Google search on it. While there are a few countries that allow non-citizens to vote in small local elections, it is generally a bad idea to allow such significant foreign influence.
But I don't bother even considering jobs which offer sponsorship.
For a few years now I've seen posts on Slashdot saying that H1B visa workers work for lower salaries or longer hours than other workers. What geographic location is this? What field? Because that doesn't jive with my experience at all.
I have been writing software for almost 20 years. For 17 of those years, I have worked in Maryland and Washington DC along side H1B visa workers. They work the same hours as everyone else on the team, with the same expectations, for the same salary range. They are subject to the same labor protection laws as everyone else. What idiotic manager would hire a less qualified software engineer for 10% less? Everybody I know takes the most qualified person possible within the salary range.
The real salary question is: Are H1B salaries significantly lower comparable green-card holders? Foreigners typically make less than their native counterparts because they have poorer communication skills since they were born overseas, and because there is a significant risk that they will up and leave for their home country. In the case of H1B workers, the company has to pay for sponsorship and probably can only bring them on as a contractor through a third-party. So all that will affect their salary. But these stories of H1Bs working 80 hours for 20% less money doesn't jive.
...nothing is lost by giving them green cards on the 1st day. This is not a security threat because they are physically present in the country regardless of the visa
If you gave them green cards the first day, they wouldn't have to work. Thus defeating the entire purpose of the system. It's a fair deal: They work, they get to stay. They pay taxes, they receive benefits. That is why there are work visas, and educational visas, and travel visas, and each one has different stipulations.
No country on earth permits aliens to immigrate to the country, obtain benefits, and not provide something in return. Here in America, there are lots of people who think that even natural-born American citizens should not get benefits unless they work! So we certainly aren't going to give those benefits to anyone else without something in return.
The only way to equalize the marketplace is not to have artificial salary standards. It's to make them permanent alien residents.
Aha! The root of the problem here is the premise of the argument: it is not possible to equalize the marketplace. Many H1B visa workers come from India where the marketplace is vastly different. By coming to the US, they make literally 10 times as much. The US can't "equalize" that by offering green cards in exchange for nothing.
The compromise here is that H1B visa workers have a 60-day grace period to find another job and sponsorship. In a demanding field, they should have little problem finding another job. I can only speak for the software industry, but if you are an H1B Software Engineer who is being treated unfairly, I can point you to multiple companies in my local area that are hiring smart people and will sponsor you. There's no reason to put up with bad working conditions or lower salary.
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So how about reciprocity? Would you hand over your phone, your phone password, your email password, your facebook password, when you want to visit ...?
No. You simply choose not enter the country.
I remember when Java was the first language to do this. Shortly after that, C# was the first language to do this. Now PHP is the first language to do this. So who will be the next one to do it first?
THAT is what the summary should say. Not that it "...is designed to be remotely provisioned by mobile network operators with subscription information and is globally interoperable across all carriers, device makers a..." Gahhh Editorssss!!!!
Part of the problem is that people can't detect BS. The other part is that they don't care. Once people have chosen a side, they tend to ignore information that disproves their assumed position. How do we deal with that problem?
I see a bit of a decline in online stores coming soon, not limited just to Amazon, because they have pushed the consumer too far. Here is why:
1. They are selling too much low-quality crud:
There are classes of items I can no longer buy online, because I have a 50/50 chance of getting a product other than what I actually ordered. Many e-commerce sites are copying the Amazon model of putting items on their sites, even if they aren't products the company sells directly. I can't buy USB cables, batteries, flash memory cards, or really any OEM parts online any longer. Even if the Amazon or Newegg store says it is an actual Samsung product, odds are good that I will actually get is a rip-off. I bought a rustproof aluminum part from Lowes, only to find it was actually iron so it rusted out. Now I find the same phony part at Sears.com. But it isn't actually a Sears product and it isn't in their stores.
2. They are no longer the cheapest deal in town
Several years ago I just went to Amazon for anything and everything, and just assumed it was the cheapest. That's no longer true. Even without shipping, I can usually find the item cheaper somewhere else. I'm even finding retail stores are competing positively on price. Now, this isn't true for electronics by any means, but see point #1 above. I'd rather pay $50 for 4000mAh a OEM battery at BestBuy than $10 for a clone that's 2500mAh but says 4000mAh on the case.
3. No longer tax-free
The tax-free days are over.
4. Shipping costs
Shipping costs are increasing.
Median-income Americans today can buy more than people of 5, 10, and 20 years ago,
20 years ago: maybe. But 5 years ago: no. I bet hat statistics showing that are using the consumer price index, which has not been accurately kept up-to-date.
These new network balloons provide super reliable connec@FA#$F^xF1zNO CARRIER
The new straw runs Windows IoT embedded on an ARM Cortex A53 with 1GB of RAM. The straw contains 2 Festo 334-T3 pressure regulators that update 64,000 times per second to maintain an even flow of chocolate and shamrock. The embedded 802.11N connectivity will inform McDonald's immediately when your drink is done so it can automatically charge your credit card for another.
[public transportation] it's viewed as something that poor people use,
Not in England, Washington DC and surrounding metropolitan area, or New York.
I would agree with you if you said "buses" but not if you say "public transportation."
The linked article didn't say what the basis for the decision was. And it only applied to one driver. It does not say they had to reclassify all their drivers as employees.
Isn't all that secondary to the fact that they can work any hours you want, at any location they want, they provide your own tools, and they can turn down customers? I disagree with your assessment that they cannot turn down too many customers. They can turn down as many customers as they want by not signing in to the app. They can't sign-in to the app, mark that they are open for business, then turn down customers. But that's just being an jerk.
There's lots of professions where the fees are fixed. Consider this: If uber added a bidding process, so that prices aren't fixed, would that be enough of a change that they are now contractors?
Good info, thanks.
Since you are the first potentially rational Trump supporter, I honestly want to understand your positions. Do you want a wall between the US and Mexico, and if so, why? Do you want to forgive Russia for the annexation of Crimea? Let's see..what else.... do you support ending the child care tax credit? Do you believe in global warming?
You have provided no references whatsoever. But you are sure mine are all fake!
P.S. I said Russia, not Soviet Union.
A few questions: Do you know their title? Do you know where they were working from? Or why could they not find a job locally?
Since you say you were writing software, I assume the other person was also writing software. The government should have turned down the H1B application if the person was not being paid a market rate since that is a requirement of the program. I wonder if the CTO was actually lying to you about the salary. Could it be that the remote employee was making more than you, and the CTO didn't want to tell you that? Usually, they don't talk salaries anyway. Another possibility is that he was committing fraud, and put a higher salary on the H1B application and was pocketing the difference. Fraud would be an interesting twist here.
peel off a layer of that dinosaur skin. This is happening all over.
I ask a legit question, provide examples, and it ends with ACs posting ad-hominem attacks and making unsubstantiated claims. Ugh, it's not like I'm new here, I should be used to this by now. But I just keep on trying anyway.
I had no idea that all programmers face deportation within 6 months if they get fired
Nope, just H1Bs. Also: it's 60-days, not 6 months.
What idiotic manager would not hire an employee of equal skill
Interviewing doesn't work that way. There's no such thing as equal skill. Everyone has advantages and disadvantages. Companies that are large enough to sponsor H1B visa workers aren't splitting hairs over 10% salary differences.
but who can be pressed to work longer hours without compensation
Who? Where? What field? You are just repeating the claim. I am trying to figure out who this is happening to. I know it isn't Software engineers. So who is it? Do you know any?
Thanks for the link. That's a good start. We can try to guess what the fields are from the job titles. Hmmm... This link shows it by occupation. That's interesting.
Okay, so this is painting a picture for me. There are two kinds of H1Bs. One kind is hired by a company that does actual work and makes an actual product: Apple, Microsoft, Intel. Those H1B visa workers are probably not being abused, and they probably aren't displacing American workers. Those are the kind I know. The other kind is the IT outsourcing companies like WiPro, Tata, and IGate. They are replacing American jobs with a combination of H1B visa jobs and outsourcing. I notice that the "Software developer" occupation makes >100k, and they work at places like Intel, IBM, Motorola, Apple. And the "Computer programmers" make 67k and work at Tata, InfoSys, IBM, and WiPro. IBM is in both lists, interestingly.
I wonder what those "Computer programmer" H1B visa workers are really doing? Looking at Tata's business model, how can H1B visa be justified here? That company's job is to basically put IT workers in other companies out a job by outsourcing. But if they have that many H1B visa workers, aren't they just displacing an American worker with an H1B worker?
I've heard about Tata. Is Cap Gemini that same way?
I know a local company that just outsourced most of their IT department to Cap Gemini. I know much of Cap Gemini's workforce is overseas. I've been politely listening, but so far no one has mentioned any H1B visa workers involved. Slashdot has had a few articles on the topic, but I have yet to see any real evidence that H1B was involved in these cases.
I agree about permanent residency. I work with some H1Bs who would love citizenship, and are absolutely frieking smart. We want those people! That's why I want to hear some of these H1B abuse stories. It is frustrating to need smart people, and at the same time have people decrying the H1B program that is providing us those smart people. We don't need to get rid of the program, we need to quickly find those talented ones and give an efficient path to citizenship. I want to know who is abusing these H1B visa workers. I'm pretty sure it isn't engineers, which is why I'm not seeing it.
You might not realize that your fellow employee is taking shit and grinning because they are just waiting for the greed card to come through.
So let me get this straight: I ask for evidence that H1B visa workers are abused, and the best I get is that even though I work with them, party with them, and go to church with them, secretly my boss is being an asshole to them and I don't know it. And this has been going on for 17 years without my knowledge. But an AC on the internet knows the real truth about my coworkers and my friends secret lives.
I'm looking for someone to tell me who and where H1B visas are being approved. Because I don't see it. I'm not looking for speculation, I want examples, anecdotes, SOMETHING other than anonymous cowards on the internet making unsupported claims.
I agree that Germans have an amazing work ethic. I can't speak for French. Having worked in England, I can tell you that they work 9am to 5pm, and 5:01 they hit the pubs. American's tend to work longer hours in general.
You are talking about what should happen to the best of them. What about those who are not the best, but who are still pretty good?
Why would a country go out of their way to import workers who are average? There's plenty of such people. If a country brought in average workers, then that would put a citizen worker out of a job.
You do realize that we are creating a class of people who think they must be better just to get equal treatment and who, once they get all their legal right, will retain a degree of bitterness towards those who "had it easy"?
That is false. You have never met an H1B worker.
Let me tell you about H1B workers I know: Jitu, Song, Haichuan, Anish, Bala, Tong, Dmitry, Pratima, Anjalee. Those are real names and real people, not some fictituous strawman I read about on the internet. Some of them are citizens now. Every one of them is truly grateful for being here. They love the US. They worked hard to get here and stay here. Some of them are torn: They love this country, but it is so hard to leave your home, even if it is poor or you had limited rights there. Nobody is more excited about freedom and democracy than somebody from China or Russia who came here and stayed long enough to become a citizen. It's quite inspiring to see a new Chinese citizen say "Today I learned I have the right to own a gun! That no one can take it from me, and that nobody can stop me from saying president XYZ is a @!#?@!" It reminds you what freedom and democracy is, even with all the negative political rhetoric that surrounds us. :-) It's sad too, when I asked Dmitry what it was like in Russia. He just said, quite darkly, "They don't have video games my friend." (He knew I was a gamer, so he was teasing me, but also drawing a real contrast.) He didn't like to talk about where he came from. Another guy talked about living in Germany before the wall came down. That inspiring Chinese guy just shook his head when he talked about the conditions of some of his fellow PhDs back in China. Hearing their stories gives you a lot of perspective.
I'd like to respond, but I honestly don't know what you are trying to say. I'm really confused. In your post, you seem to be saying that people should get green cards for doing nothing, and that they should not have to hold jobs. But...then your response to my post doesn't seem consistent with that. So I'm really lost. Sorry.
If they are qualified and are getting competitive wages, why would they not stay on the job?
Most probably would. But you would seriously reduce their incentive to work by giving them a green card while asking for nothing in return. Why stay in a high-skill high-pressure job when you could work at Wal-mart and get a better standard of living than you could back in your country of origin? Many of them came from places where US welfare system would be far better than their previous standard of living. But, think more sinister: If all it took was a successful interview and 1 day on the job to get a green card, then they would setup a mill: A smart guy interviews, gets the job, then unqualified guy comes over in his/her place, takes the job, and gets the green card. They actually do this today! But once they are fired they have 60 days to find something else or they are deported. In your scenario, they are here for good.
A deal doesn't work if one party gets everything, and has no obligation to hold-up their end of the deal.
Oh, and since they pay taxes, why shouldn't they be on the same track to citizenship as other resident aliens?
I think we agree here. They should be on the same track. But by definition, H1-B is a temporary worker. The reality is that the US needs certain classes of workers, and they aren't temporary if they stay for 5 years. If they are highly-skilled highly-educated workers, we should do everything we can to keep them here. Personally, I'd rather make a path for the H1Bs to become citizens, than to give green cards or citizenship to unskilled workers who sneak in and have kids here.
Why should they not have a right to vote for mayors and city councils of the communities where they live for an extra 5-6 years that it takes them to get green cards?
This is a general civics question and I suggest you do a Google search on it. While there are a few countries that allow non-citizens to vote in small local elections, it is generally a bad idea to allow such significant foreign influence.
But I don't bother even considering jobs which offer sponsorship.
What is your field?
For a few years now I've seen posts on Slashdot saying that H1B visa workers work for lower salaries or longer hours than other workers. What geographic location is this? What field? Because that doesn't jive with my experience at all.
I have been writing software for almost 20 years. For 17 of those years, I have worked in Maryland and Washington DC along side H1B visa workers. They work the same hours as everyone else on the team, with the same expectations, for the same salary range. They are subject to the same labor protection laws as everyone else. What idiotic manager would hire a less qualified software engineer for 10% less? Everybody I know takes the most qualified person possible within the salary range.
The real salary question is: Are H1B salaries significantly lower comparable green-card holders? Foreigners typically make less than their native counterparts because they have poorer communication skills since they were born overseas, and because there is a significant risk that they will up and leave for their home country. In the case of H1B workers, the company has to pay for sponsorship and probably can only bring them on as a contractor through a third-party. So all that will affect their salary. But these stories of H1Bs working 80 hours for 20% less money doesn't jive.
...nothing is lost by giving them green cards on the 1st day. This is not a security threat because they are physically present in the country regardless of the visa
If you gave them green cards the first day, they wouldn't have to work. Thus defeating the entire purpose of the system. It's a fair deal: They work, they get to stay. They pay taxes, they receive benefits. That is why there are work visas, and educational visas, and travel visas, and each one has different stipulations.
No country on earth permits aliens to immigrate to the country, obtain benefits, and not provide something in return. Here in America, there are lots of people who think that even natural-born American citizens should not get benefits unless they work! So we certainly aren't going to give those benefits to anyone else without something in return.
The only way to equalize the marketplace is not to have artificial salary standards. It's to make them permanent alien residents.
Aha! The root of the problem here is the premise of the argument: it is not possible to equalize the marketplace. Many H1B visa workers come from India where the marketplace is vastly different. By coming to the US, they make literally 10 times as much. The US can't "equalize" that by offering green cards in exchange for nothing.
The compromise here is that H1B visa workers have a 60-day grace period to find another job and sponsorship. In a demanding field, they should have little problem finding another job. I can only speak for the software industry, but if you are an H1B Software Engineer who is being treated unfairly, I can point you to multiple companies in my local area that are hiring smart people and will sponsor you. There's no reason to put up with bad working conditions or lower salary.
Can I join a different union? Or is a union a monopoly?