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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe new bill to boost H-1B visas is based on a lie
The recession is over, salaries are going through the roof, and there's a shortage of trained IT workers stifling the competitiveness of U.S. companies. It makes sense, then, to finally raise the cap on the H-1B visas, the legal document that allows technology companies to hire foreign nationals to work in the United States. You should support the bipartisan move in Congress to do just that.
None of the above is true. If you believe it, you've fallen victim to the propaganda churned out by technology companies eager to find a source of relatively low-paid workers whose desire to stay in the United States makes them unusually complaint and ripe for exploitation. What's more, the very simple laws of supply and demand will tell you that a glut of IT workers would have the effect of lowering wages and working conditions for everyone in the industry.
This is not just my opinion. Two of our colleagues at Computerworld, a sister publication, have done serious reporting on this issue and shown exactly who has imported the most workers under the H-1B program. The largest single users of H-1B visas are offshore outsourcers, many of which are based in India or, if U.S.-based, have most employees located overseas.
All seven of the companies that lead the pack when it comes to importing workers under H-1B are outsourcers, according to an analysis of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration service data by Computerworld. They are: Cognizant, Tata, Infosys, Wipro, Accenture, HCL America, and Mahindra Group.
"This is just affirmation that H-1B has become the outsourcing visa," said Ron Hira, a public policy professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and researcher of tech immigration issues.
None of the above is true. If you believe it, you've fallen victim to the propaganda churned out by technology companies eager to find a source of relatively low-paid workers whose desire to stay in the United States makes them unusually complaint and ripe for exploitation. What's more, the very simple laws of supply and demand will tell you that a glut of IT workers would have the effect of lowering wages and working conditions for everyone in the industry.
This is not just my opinion. Two of our colleagues at Computerworld, a sister publication, have done serious reporting on this issue and shown exactly who has imported the most workers under the H-1B program. The largest single users of H-1B visas are offshore outsourcers, many of which are based in India or, if U.S.-based, have most employees located overseas.
All seven of the companies that lead the pack when it comes to importing workers under H-1B are outsourcers, according to an analysis of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration service data by Computerworld. They are: Cognizant, Tata, Infosys, Wipro, Accenture, HCL America, and Mahindra Group.
"This is just affirmation that H-1B has become the outsourcing visa," said Ron Hira, a public policy professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and researcher of tech immigration issues.
- See more at: http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/the-new-bill-boost-h-1b-visas-based-lie-213624
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The new bill to boost H-1B visas is based on a lie (Original Post)
FarCenter
Feb 2013
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It makes no sense to import workers when unemployment is 10% or higher in some areas.
MH1
Feb 2013
#1
Displacement is illegal but NO ONE is enforcing it, time to unionize IMHO....
uponit7771
Feb 2013
#2
MH1
(17,600 posts)1. It makes no sense to import workers when unemployment is 10% or higher in some areas.
Instead, incentivize companies to TRAIN people. Train up their current people, and hire entry-level and train them up.
Yeah it sounds pie in the sky but we ought to TRY it before giving up and importing workers. As far as I can tell, it hasn't been tried, and that ticks me off.
(I work in IT.)
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)2. Displacement is illegal but NO ONE is enforcing it, time to unionize IMHO....
lob1
(3,820 posts)3. The whole H-1B program is a scam to pay cheap wages,
and everyone in congress knows it and goes along with it anyway, including democrats. They used to call Hillary Queen of the H-1B's.