JTA wrote:... I don't think H1B's should necessarily be restricted, but I agree with the reasoning they ought to be paid significantly more than their American counterparts ...
Paid more or paid the same? I'll agree with the latter and with Sanders' worker solidarity approach, not to mention his calls for vastly improving US college education, more than I ever will with Trump's xenophobia. Bosses are indeed sleazy.
This table is interesting, Employers ranked by H-1B visas approved. Looks like a huge number of the H-1Bs are going to Indian firms that we've encouraged to invest here. Not that surprising that they prefer Indian workers.
One of the bigger criticisms of "free trade" is that it facilitates the mobility of capital while doing nothing for the mobility of labor, thus making things far worse for workers relative to the bosses. I'll bet that US STEM workers are far more disadvantaged by the export of jobs than they are by the import of relatively few workers.
JTA wrote:... I don't think H1B's should necessarily be restricted, but I agree with the reasoning they ought to be paid significantly more than their American counterparts ...
Paid more or paid the same? I'll agree with the latter and with Sanders' worker solidarity approach, not to mention his calls for vastly improving US college education, more than I ever will with Trump's xenophobia. Bosses are indeed sleazy.
This table is interesting, Employers ranked by H-1B visas approved. Looks like a huge number of the H-1Bs are going to Indian firms that we've encouraged to invest here. Not that surprising that they prefer Indian workers.
One of the bigger criticisms of "free trade" is that it facilitates the mobility of capital while doing nothing for the mobility of labor, thus making things far worse for workers relative to the bosses. I'll bet that US STEM workers are far more disadvantaged by the export of jobs than they are by the import of relatively few workers.
Personally, I think they should be paid more. I'm sure there's some more scenarios I haven't considered and I'm not sure if it's even possible to implement this idea, but it seems like in doing this only the most highly skilled, impossible to fill domestic positions will be filled, rather than the run-of-the-mill code-monkey jobs. Like I said though, not even sure if that's doable and there's probably a lot I haven't considered. But this is why someone else makes laws instead of me .
Yeah agreed on the export of jobs. My team probably employs 20-30 offshore guys. I think those guys probably make between 5-10k per year. Hard to compete with that when the median salary for devs in the US is probably around 70-90k.
Oh well jokes on the company cutting corners because the work is usually sub-par and they end up paying dearly by losing customers and what not and having to pay someone to clean up the mess left behind.
You aren't doing it wrong if no one knows what you are doing.
The pay for Edison's domestic IT specialists is about $80,000 to $160,000 not including benefits, with the average at about $120,000 for experienced personnel, according to records Edison submitted to the state Public Utilities Commission. The two Indian outsourcing firms providing workers to Edison, Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys, pay their recruits an average of about $65,000 to $71,000, according to their federal filings.
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Edison acknowledges that the transition "has not been seamless but it is also not complete." The firm says the outsourcing will be completed early this year, and that once the transition reaches "a mature state," its IT operating costs will fall 20%.
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Edison relies on a loophole to skate around rules forbidding the use of cheap H-1B labor to replace existing domestic employees. Technically, Edison isn't the H-1B employer; Tata and Infosys are. This sleight of hand allows Edison to say, as it told The Times, that it is "not hiring H-1B visa workers to replace displaced employees." The contractors, Tata and Infosys, are doing the hiring. Edison says those firms "determine the composition of their own workforce." Because the outsourcing firms employ minimal American staffs themselves, the thousands of Indian workers they import aren't technically replacing Americans.
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The H-1B system turns the Indian workers virtually into indentured servants, Hira says. The visas are held in the employer's name, and are canceled if the worker loses the job. That gives the employer immense power to keep its workforce docile. "If you speak out, they'll terminate you and you'll have to leave the country," Hira says.
You aren't doing it wrong if no one knows what you are doing.
About 30 black students who were standing silently at the top of the bleachers at Donald Trump’s rally here Monday night were escorted out by security officials before the presidential candidate began speaking.
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“We didn’t plan to do anything,” said a tearful Tahjila Davis, a 19-year-old mass media major, who was among the Valdosta State University students who was removed. “They said, 'This is Trump’s property; it’s a private event.' But I paid my tuition to be here.”
"... 'What I resent is now some of these folks are going around saying it was a black issue. That’s total nonsense,' he said."
LIAR.
“'I personally asked why were these folks told to leave and the reason was: they were being disruptive. The Trump staff said they were using profanity. The F-bomb is one word that was used. You can’t be in there using profanity. That violates Georgia law.'”
LIAR, FIRST AMENDMENT.
"Some of the students could have been arrested for disorderly conduct or for criminal trespass for arguing with the Trump detail when they were asked to leave, (Valdosta Police Chief Brian) Childress said...."
LIAR, FIRST AMENDMENT.
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billy.pilgrim wrote:I would love to see an educated assessment of trumper's intelligence based on his 3rd grade vocabulary. A normal thinking voter could never put someone with a below average IQ. Probably wouldn't make any difference with the current crop of trumpers, it could give him a little bump.
The only way to beat this asshole is to get on his level, or even below. The tiny hands superpac should start questioning why his hand are so tiny and unable to grasp big things immediately after he becomes the repug nominee. Imagine how embarrassing it would be to have such an ill-formed person for president shaking hands with superior hands around the world.
tiny hands are palin and simple inferior to even regular hands.
billy.pilgrim wrote:I would love to see an educated assessment of trumper's intelligence based on his 3rd grade vocabulary. A normal thinking voter could never put someone with a below average IQ. Probably wouldn't make any difference with the current crop of trumpers, it could give him a little bump.
The only way to beat this asshole is to get on his level, or even below. The tiny hands superpac should start questioning why his hand are so tiny and unable to grasp big things immediately after he becomes the repug nominee. Imagine how embarrassing it would be to have such an ill-formed person for president shaking hands with superior hands around the world.
tiny hands are palin and simple inferior to even regular hands.
my wife showed me an article about an ongoing feud this idiot has been having with someone from Spy magazine since 1988 about his tiny tiny hands. He sends the guy clippings of pictures of him with his hands cicled in gold sharpie with captions stating that his hands are normal.
As I said, the only way to fight him is to get down to his 3rd grade level, but no way did I think that a real presidential candidate should do it - that would be like way Stupid - that's what super pacs, bought media and liberal funny man john oliver is for.
Marco must have read the Spy piece because baby marco is now attacking rump about his tiny hands and tiny dick.
God these people are stupid.
Thanks John for sharing trumpet's failed businesses, especially his travel site GoTrump.com,
or was that GotRump.com
some people just never get thinking things through before
acting
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
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