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Showing Original Post only (View all)Obama finalizing plans to have your tech job replaced by foreigners [View all]
Or, if you're lucky enough to hold onto your job, it's likely your wages will be kept stagnant by the further influx pool of cheap foreign labor.
Tech industry groups lobbied Obama, gave him their "wish list", and he is happily responding in kind: spouses of H-1B visa holders who are currently in the US will be granted the same work visas as their spouses, thus doubling (at the very least) the number of available H-1B's in the US. And surprise, surprise! The US Chamber of Offshoring/Commerce is fully on board with the administration's plan to double the number of H-1B visas through the spouse loophole.
(Followup to some previous posts on the subject.)
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2598332/technology-law-regulation/obama-s-options-for-tech-immigration-take-shape.html
Obama's options for tech immigration take shape
By Patrick Thibodeau
Computerworld | Aug 20, 2014 5:38 PM PT
When President Barack Obama takes executive action on immigration, he's expected to give final approval to a rule allowing spouses of H-1B visa holders, now barred from working in the U.S., to get jobs. There could be more changes as well as the Obama administration has met with various tech groups to collect wish lists.
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More certain is final White House approval of a rule to allow spouses of H-1B visa holders who are seeking green cards with authorization to work. For now, spouses can't hold jobs.
Writing in opposition was the Society of Professional Engineering in Aerospace (SPEEA), whose members are employed as scientists and in technical positions at several large companies, including Boeing.
SPEEA said that there is "the strong likelihood" that spouses will have science, technology, engineering and math degrees (STEM), and that in many cases may work for the same employer are their H-1B holding spouse. It warned that if the rule is adopted, "employers will likely exploit this opportunity by preferentially hiring H-1B workers with STEM-degreed spouses in order to acquire two STEM workers with one H-1B visa."
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports the (granting of H-1B's to spouses) rule, arguing that employed spouses "will improve the likelihood that highly skilled H-1B workers will seek to stay in the U.S. on a permanent basis and remain in the U.S. labor force."
Thibodeau: An H-1B cap hike would mean a grim future for workers.
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brentspeak
Sep 2014
OP
Hillary has opined on a number of occasions that the poor tech employers just cannot find
merrily
Sep 2014
#2
Hillary should also be cognizant that earnings by H-1B workers often LEAVE OUR ECONOMY!
cascadiance
Sep 2014
#77
I wonder if this will get as many rec's as the one last week about his highness's "I'd join a union"
Doctor_J
Sep 2014
#33
Be reasonable. Don't you know that the whole idea is to equalize salaries across the globe?
sabrina 1
Sep 2014
#141
Equalizing salaries across the globe (more equality) would be a good thing. Lowering them would not.
pampango
Sep 2014
#147
Of course raising the pay rates and equalizing them globally would be the right thing to do.
sabrina 1
Sep 2014
#149
RARELY on EARTH in any country is there a 2 STEM household ESPECIALLY in the same field...
uponit7771
Sep 2014
#5
Got anything empirical? I work in a STEM field... rarely do the spouces have same STEM occupation
uponit7771
Sep 2014
#10
If you went to an engineering school you must have been aware that there were WOMEN there.
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#22
People, your individual experiences...howbeit beautiful are not empirical... out of 3.5 billion work
uponit7771
Sep 2014
#148
The article doesn't even freakin mention STEM... what the hell are you "hating"?!
uponit7771
Sep 2014
#177
Companies have used H1B visas as form a displacement, that's not in dispute I don't think this is...
uponit7771
Sep 2014
#13
It's going to be a far higher lift than what you are predicting, because most of
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#21
How about we take away your computer and give it to some random person on the street.
ChromeFoundry
Sep 2014
#14
We just don't want an uneven playing field and legalized INDENTURED SERVITUDE!
cascadiance
Sep 2014
#16
Entitled? It's bad enough that we're pushing our young people into STEM fields on the basis
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#20
These "top" STEM workers can usually find jobs in their own countries, which need
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#38
I work for a software company and we have so many openings for Engineers it's not funny.
dilby
Sep 2014
#24
Age is not the issue for my company we have all ages. Culturaly we are very progressive and green.
dilby
Sep 2014
#40
Most companies have a culture and they prefer to hire those who fit the company culture.
dilby
Sep 2014
#53
Interesting because companies who hire bigots, homophobes, misogynists and abusers are regularly
dilby
Sep 2014
#142
Your commitment to diversity is reflected in the kind of people whom you refuse to hire?
lumberjack_jeff
Sep 2014
#144
Can you give me an example of a post in which a DUer condemned a company that hires
JDPriestly
Sep 2014
#145
But you don't discriminate based on traits with which a person is born like race, sexual preference,
JDPriestly
Sep 2014
#182
All companies have litmus tests. Even those in government positions like the DMV and police.
BlueCaliDem
Sep 2014
#134
I know. But it's pretty hard to prove that kind of discrimination in a court of law.
BlueCaliDem
Sep 2014
#140
Unbridled support for illegal immigration and they don't think it is a good?
TexasMommaWithAHat
Sep 2014
#54
"Unbridled support for illegal immigration and they don't think it is a good?"
NCTraveler
Sep 2014
#56
Globalisation means a tendency towards wage convergence across economies, actually
Spider Jerusalem
Sep 2014
#65
American prosperity is partly built on exploiting the resources and labour of developing countries.
Spider Jerusalem
Sep 2014
#69
"...a love for the United States and a desire for its citizenry to prosper." True but not limited to
pampango
Sep 2014
#138
"They took our jobs!" is funny, remember? Everybody said we shouldn't whine, remember? What changed?
Romulox
Sep 2014
#101
The "ideal" is every man for himself. The reality is that this maxim applies to IT workers
Romulox
Sep 2014
#103
Of course we have a "right" to do so. I just don't see any evidence that we will.
Romulox
Sep 2014
#150
They don't have to be cheerleaders, just part of the same system as the rest of us.
Romulox
Sep 2014
#164
IT Workers Are The Canary In the Coal Mine For the Promises Made to Americans
TexasMommaWithAHat
Sep 2014
#166
So its really the Oligarchs that hate us for our freedoms! Okay I see now.
misterhighwasted
Sep 2014
#105
Yes, and large numbers of spouses get the plum jobs at gov/t agencies like NASA, NIH, AG, NSF, CDC.
kelliekat44
Sep 2014
#109
Shameful. All immigrants should be on equal footing. All should have the same rights.
JDPriestly
Sep 2014
#129
I'm going to blame the republicans for this. I'm still working out the details on that, though. n/t
hughee99
Sep 2014
#174
Just wait 'til employers start arranging marriages between workers for H-1B reasons.
hughee99
Sep 2014
#175