Sean O'Brien, president of the Teamsters Union, said the H-1B visa program “forces” Americans out of work while allowing foreign workers to be exploited by billionaires at the top of corporations.
Amid debate over the H-1B visa program, which allows companies to import hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, primarily from India, to fill white-collar jobs in the United States, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) -Vermont) blasted the program as nothing more than a gimmick. outsourcing scheme.
“The primary role of the H-1B visa program and other guest worker initiatives is not to hire the 'best and brightest,' but rather to replace high-paying American jobs with low-paying indentured labor from abroad. It is about replacing it.”
The cheaper labor it employs, the more money billionaires make,” Sanders wrote.
If there really is a shortage of skilled tech workers in America, why did Tesla lay off over 7,500 American workers this year? – including many software developers and engineers at our Austin, Texas factory – Even though thousands of H-1B guest workers have been approved for employment? [Emphasis added]
In response, Mr. O'Brien told Mr. X that he agreed with Mr. Sanders “100%.”
“The H-1B guest worker visa program displaces American workers and enables billionaire high-tech employers to exploit foreign workers,” O'Brien wrote.
Studies have repeatedly found that the H-1B visa program is often used as a huge labor savings plan by Fortune 500 companies.
For years, Breitbart News has documented the mistreatment of America's white-collar professionals as a result of the H-1B visa program. As Breitbart News highlights, Americans are often fired in the process and forced to train foreign replacements.
There are approximately 650,000 H-1B visas. foreign country American workers all the time.
the study published In the September issue of the Journal of Business Ethics, we reviewed wage data comparing the starting salaries of foreign H-1B visa workers to those of U.S. workers. The data found that foreign workers on H-1B visas are paid 10 percent less than Americans doing the same job.
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