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"Fred Humphries, a vice president at Microsoft, one of the biggest users of H-1B visas, said they would have “a positive economic impact.” He continued, under
by grumpypants666 12y ago
"Fred Humphries, a vice president at Microsoft, one of the biggest users of H-1B visas, said they would have “a positive economic impact.”
He continued, under his breath, "Because Microsoft wouldn't have to pay prevailing wage to even more engineers".
Look - if you're outside the US you can ignore this comment but for those of us in the US, this is a screw job.
Most H-1Bs are used to import cheap - ridiculously cheap - labor and displace middle class workers. Period. There are almost always people in the US that can do the work but not at the wage that the Msoft or whomever would like to pay. The "we can't find qualified workers" bullshit is just that.
As if the collusion to suppress wages wasn't bad enough...
- gdc 12y agoOf course, you can cite a credible source that Microsoft is paying H1-B's below prevailing wage?
- grumpypants666 12y agoShit. Why not just down vote me instead of using a craptard "citation" argument. Or you can use, what do you kids call it, GOOGLE! thats it and find a metric fuckton of articles about how company after company pays H1-B workers less than market rate. Or maybe you could get some real world experience in the corporate world and learn how things work. You want another unsubstantiated claim? There is no shortage of STEM workers in America. It is used as a justification to import cheap labor to the US. Why is income inequality worse than its been in 100 years in the US? Its a war on the middle class and this is but one small portion of it. Cite that.