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Post by avordvet on Aug 18, 2015 4:27:50 GMT -5
Uncertain local job market awaits Qualcomm workersWith layoffs pending at tech giant, workers could need retraining to find positionsBy Mike Freeman, 6 a.m. Aug. 17, 2015 Updated, 1:53 p.m. But during layoffs, these claims of a shortage of American tech workers come under scrutiny. Southern California Edison and others have taken political heat for laying off American tech workers and replacing them with H-1B workers from outsource information technology providers. Microsoft was criticized in Congress for calling for more H-1B visas as it was cutting 7,800 jobs. “Typically, companies hold onto their H-1B workers well after they have let huge numbers of their American workers go,” said Russell Harrison, director of government relations for IEEE USA, a technology industry trade group. “The companies will say, ‘They’re not in the same division. They are not the same type of worker.’ In some cases that is true and in some cases it isn’t.” www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/aug/17/Qualcomm-broadcom-nokia-layoffs-foreign-workers/
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Post by avordvet on Sept 16, 2015 12:05:49 GMT -5
HP Dumps 30,000 Jobs, But Still Cranking Up H1B Immigrantsby Chriss W. Street, 16 Sep 2015 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPQ) announced on Tuesday that the company will cut about 10 percent of its 300,000 member workforce, but appears to be moving “forward” with expanding its use of H1-B foreign immigrant visas. HP Chairman and CEO Meg Whitman said the company will cut 25,000 to 30,000 more jobs, with most of the job losses coming from the company’s enterprises services division that caters to large corporate customers. Whitman stated, “We’ve done a significant amount of work over the past few years to take costs out and simplify processes and these final actions will eliminate the need for any future corporate restructuring.” The new job slashing is in addition to the 54,000 job layoffs already taken by HP and are expected to mostly hit workers in North America, according to Bloomberg. www.breitbart.com/california/2015/09/16/hp-dumps-30000-jobs-still-cranking-h1b-immigrants/
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Post by avordvet on Sept 30, 2015 13:28:42 GMT -5
New Citizen Group Forms from Disney H1-B ScandalUpdated: Wed, Sep 30th 2015 @ 12:03 pm EDT by Melanie Oubre After the New York Times published a story in June covering how Walt Disney World forced American employees to train their foreign-worker replacements, outrage surfaced across the country. A group of concerned citizens decided to do something about it by forming the organization Boycott Disney Now. www.numbersusa.com/blog/new-citizen-group-forms-disney-h1-b-scandal
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Post by avordvet on Oct 21, 2015 4:17:38 GMT -5
Feds dangle $12,000 bonus to firms that hire foreign studentsBy Paul Bedard, 10/19/15 6:25 PM The Department of Homeland Security is readying a plan to expand a program that pays U.S. employers to hire foreign STEM students taught in America, a move that could end up punishing American college grads and even the elderly, according to an immigration think tank. In pushing to allow more foreign students into the so-called "optional practical training program," DHS said that it will help businesses and colleges by keeping those foreign students in the U.S. following their American-taught science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, curriculum. www.washingtonexaminer.com/feds-dangle-12000-bonus-to-firms-that-hire-foreign-students/article/2574411
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Post by avordvet on Oct 30, 2015 4:29:38 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Dec 17, 2015 7:06:56 GMT -5
Secret deal quadruples foreign workers in U.S.Borrows from Rubio's 'Gang of Eight' bill to flood blue-collar job marketPublished: 16 Dec 2015, Leo Hohmann Buried in the 2,000-page omnibus spending bill released by the Senate Wednesday morning is a secret provision that many senators hope unemployed blue-collar workers won’t find out about. This provision would quadruple the number of H-2B visas for low-skilled foreign “guest workers.” It would allow more than a quarter-of-a-million foreign workers to enter the U.S. each year and work in the construction industry, hotel-motel services, truck drivers, food processing, forestry and many other fields that don’t require a college education. A vote on the spending bill is expected late Thursday night, possibly after midnight, sources on the Hill told WND. www.wnd.com/2015/12/secret-deal-quadruples-foreign-workers-in-u-s/
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Post by avordvet on Dec 31, 2015 5:51:37 GMT -5
New Year’s Surprise: Obama Regulation To Give Work-Permits To Foreign College-Graduatesby Neil Munro, 30 Dec 2015 As the nation prepares to ring in the New Year, President Barack Obama is preparing a colossal new executive action that could print-up work permits for a huge number of foreign white-collar graduates every year, above and beyond the levels set by Congress. This executive action, which directly bypasses Congressional lawmakers, is likely to reverberate across the presidential race, as GOP voters look to choose a nominee they believe will most effectively roll back the President’s still-expanding agenda. And it will certainly raise new security concerns as it covers categories of immigration utilized by migrants from the Middle East and nearby regions. President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security plans to publish the proposed rule tomorrow, the last day of 2015. www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/12/30/obamas-agency-reveals-plan-give-work-permits-myriad-foreign-college-graduates/
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Post by avordvet on Jan 21, 2016 17:30:09 GMT -5
Group Releases Ad Slamming Replacement of U.S. Workers with Foreign LaborBY: Ali Meyer, January 20, 2016 10:33 am A native-born employee at Disney who was fired spoke out against abuse in the H-1B visa program, explaining how he was replaced by cheap foreign labor, in a new ad campaign produced by the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Last year, Disney World fired 250 American workers and replaced them with cheaper foreign workers, through the H-1B visa program. One of those displaced American workers was Leo Perrero who said he and his co-workers were shocked and surprised when they heard the news that they were being fired. “We thought we were being brought in to be delivered news of accolades, bonuses, and possibly promotions because I had just received my best possible performance review,” Perrero said. “It was a complete surprise when we walked into this room and we could feel the chill in the air that something good was not going to happen.” freebeacon.com/issues/group-releases-ads-slamming-replacement-u-s-workers-foreign-labor/
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Post by avordvet on Jan 29, 2016 14:13:47 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on May 23, 2016 4:35:17 GMT -5
The Scam Continues2016-05-22 09:23 by Karl Denninger International Business Machines Corp. this week quietly laid off employees, continuing a wave of job cuts the company announced in April. IBM declined to say how many jobs would be cut overall. The total layoffs could affect more than 14,000 jobs, according to an estimate by Stanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi. Ok, and bad enough, except for one tiny little problem. How many H1b positions is IBM attempting to fill with foreigners at the same time they're laying off Americans? market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231391
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Post by avordvet on Jun 13, 2016 4:53:08 GMT -5
Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow BolderBy JULIA PRESTON, JUNE 11, 2016 LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. — American corporations are under new scrutiny from federal lawmakers after well-publicized episodes in which the companies laid off American workers and gave the jobs to foreigners on temporary visas. But while corporate executives have been outspoken in defending their labor practices before Congress and the public, the American workers who lost jobs to global outsourcing companies have been largely silent. Until recently. Now some of the workers who were displaced are starting to speak out, despite severance agreements prohibiting them from criticizing their former employers. www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/us/laid-off-americans-required-to-zip-lips-on-way-out-grow-bolder.html?_r=0
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Post by avordvet on Sept 13, 2016 3:47:23 GMT -5
Dell-EMC to Lay Off 2,000 – 3,000 US Workers after Requesting 5,000 H-1B Visas & Green Cards to Import Foreign Workersby Wolf Richter, September 9, 2016 The ink was barely dry on Dell’s acquisition of EMC, the largest technology deal ever, valued at $67 billion when it was announced in October last year – and already the layoff rumors are oozing from the woodwork. “People familiar with the company’s plans” told Bloomberg that Dell will cut 2,000 to 3,000 jobs. Dell spokesman Dave Farmer refused to comment specifically on the report on Thursday but said instead, as sort of a confirmation: “As is common with deals of this size, there will be some overlaps we will need to manage and where some employee reduction will occur.” wolfstreet.com/2016/09/09/dell-emc-lay-off-2000-3000-u-s-workers-after-requesting-5000-h1b-visas-green-cards-to-import-foreign-workers/
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Post by avordvet on Sept 21, 2016 4:19:49 GMT -5
McDonalds Hires Foreign H-1Bs, Fires 70 American Accounting Staffby Neil Munro, 18 Sep 2016 An iconic American company, McDonald’s, has quietly outsourced the jobs of 70 white-collar professionals in Ohio to foreign H-1B workers. The H-1B outsourcing in the nation’s heartland showcases the growing corporate use of foreign H-1B workers to replace American white-collar professionals, and it comes after companies have used waves of legal and illegal migrants to slash blue-collar jobs and wages in Ohio and around the country. Also, the 70 Ohio jobs that McDonalds outsourced to lower wage foreign graduates are not Silicon Valley technology and software jobs — they’re white-collar accounting jobs performed by graduates from mainstream business schools. That outsourcing of mainstream business jobs spotlights the growing movement of foreign workers into all corners of the nation’s white-collar professional economy. White-collar outsourcing “is not just a Silicon Valley thing anymore, it is happening all over” the country, said Steve Camarota, head of research at the Center for Immigration Studies. Nationwide, the foreign population of white-collar temporary workers, dubbed “guest-workers,” now exceeds 800,000, including roughly 650,000 H-1B workers on multi-year visas. The outsourcing in Columbus, Ohio, was explained as a cost saving effort by a McDonald’s spokeswoman. “To deliver $500 million in savings, the vast majority by the end of 2017, we are restructuring many aspects of our business, including an accounting function,” said spokeswoman Terri Hickey. The outside contractor is Genpact, a New York-based firm that outsources work to Indians who are allowed to work in the United States for several years once they get an H-1B visa. The company is a spinoff from General Electric, and its biggest owner is Bain Capital. “Thank you for your inquiry but we are unable to comment on details of our client engagements due to confidentiality,” Gail Marold, the Genpact spokeswoman, told Breitbart News. A map of Genpact’s H-1B outsourcing contracts can be found here. www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/18/mcdonalds-hires-foreign-h-1bs-fires-70-american-accounting-staff/
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Post by avordvet on Nov 11, 2016 6:26:04 GMT -5
Batesville Casket Company plant leaving 200 soon to be without jobsPosted 6:42 pm, November 4, 2016, by Troy Washington, Updated at 07:08pm, November 4, 2016 BATESVILLE, Miss. -- A casket company known across the south is closing it's doors. The decision will cost 200 people their jobs. "Just to snatch 200 jobs out of the equation, that is going to hurt," said Danny Griffin. On Thursday, 200 employees at Batesville Casket Company found out that come 2017 they won't have a job. That's because the well known casket company plant is shutting its doors in Batesville and continuing production in Mexico. wreg.com/2016/11/04/batesville-casket-company-plant-leaving-200-soon-to-be-without-jobs/
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Post by avordvet on Apr 7, 2017 5:31:24 GMT -5
This one group gets 70 percent of high-skilled foreign worker visasBy Tracy Jan April 3 President Trump has called for a re-examination of the visa process that allows skilled workers to work in the U.S. Here's why the skilled worker visa program is so controversial. (Daron Taylor/The Washington Post) If you were bright -- and gifted in science and engineering -- the H-1B visa was your ticket to the United States. But maybe not for long. The lottery for such “high-skilled" worker visas opened Monday, with the 85,000 slots expected to fill in a matter of days. Nearly three-quarters of the visas are expected to go to Indian workers, as they have in recent years. But the Trump administration injected new uncertainty into the H-1B visa process Monday -- warning employers against discriminating against U.S.-born workers and announcing site visits to companies that employ a high ratio of workers on H-1B visas. President Trump, who campaigned on an "America First" ideology, has promised to "end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program" and require companies to prioritize American job applicants -- "no exceptions." www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/03/this-one-group-gets-70-percent-of-high-skilled-foreign-worker-visas/
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Post by avordvet on Apr 20, 2017 13:47:30 GMT -5
H-1B Applications Drop as Employers Anticipate ReformsMonday, 17 Apr 2017 09:04 PM Employers applied for about 16 percent fewer H-1B visas for highly skilled workers this year than in 2016, possibly reflecting concern that the Trump administration is taking a more restrictive approach to the program. Employers seeking visas for 2018 submitted 199,000 applications this year, compared with 236,000 last year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Monday. The visa program, which is designed to let companies hire highly skilled workers for technical jobs based in the U.S. that they’re having trouble filling, is a central policy focus of the technology industry. As in past years, the number of applications far exceeded the 85,000 visas available. But this was the first time in the past five years that the total number of requests decreased. While the federal government made some incremental changes this year, it didn’t make any fundamental shifts — much to the frustration of some officials who have been pushing for sweeping reforms. There are several bills in Congress that would implement bigger adjustments, but they wouldn't impact the program until next year at the earliest. www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/applications-drop-employers-reforms/2017/04/17/id/784866/
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Post by avordvet on Apr 30, 2017 6:22:00 GMT -5
Tesla recruiting engineers in Mexico for California plantFri Apr 28, 2017 5:25pm EDT, By Alexandria Sage Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is recruiting engineers from Mexico to work on robotics and other automated equipment at its California factory, according to LinkedIn postings viewed by Reuters, part of a hiring push to ready the plant for mass production of the upcoming Model 3. The electric vehicle maker, which prides itself on its "Made in America" credentials, aims to build 500,000 cars a year by 2018 at its plant in Fremont, California, south of San Francisco. That would be a six-fold increase from 2016. A recruiting poster published on LinkedIn by Tesla's senior technical recruiter, David Johnson, listed 15 types of engineers the company would be seeking at a May 5-8 recruiting event in Monterrey, Mexico. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its Mexico hiring plans. The Silicon Valley carmaker is under the gun to accelerate production and save money as it readies for volume production of the Model 3 in September. The company's future profitability hinges on its success, and high hopes for the mass-market vehicle have helped push Tesla shares up 47 percent since January. Mexico boasts a substantial pool of educated manufacturing engineers, with 19 automotive plants owned by global automakers including General Motors Co (GM.N), Ford Motor Co (F.N), Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCHA.MI) and Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE). www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-mexico-idUSKBN17U2X5
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Post by avordvet on Sept 29, 2017 4:17:48 GMT -5
Finally! although most likely a short lived effort, as there are instances of this practice ALL across the country, yet DOJ files only ONE lawsuit... Just sayin. DOJ files suit against company for allegedly not hiring AmericansBy Jake Gibson, Fox News, Sept 28 2017 The Department of Justice announced Thursday it has filed a lawsuit against a Colorado corporation for allegedly discriminating against U.S. workers. The complaint alleges that in 2016, Crop Production discriminated against at least three United States citizens by refusing to employ them as seasonal technicians in El Campo, Texas, because Crop Production preferred to hire temporary foreign workers under the H-2A visa program. “In the spirit of President Trump’s Executive Order on Buy American and Hire American, the Department of Justice will not tolerate employers who discriminate against U.S. workers because of a desire to hire temporary foreign visa holders,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement. “… Where there is a job available, U.S. workers should have a chance at it before we bring in workers from abroad.” This is the first complaint filed stemming from the “Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative,” which was launched on March 1. www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/28/doj-files-suit-against-company-for-allegedly-not-hiring-americans.html
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Post by avordvet on Jul 14, 2019 5:46:50 GMT -5
Politicians continue to sell American Citizens jobs to third-world shit-holes... What Is the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act, and What Does It Mean for US?By Jessica Vaughan, July 9, 2019 3:00 PM EDT What is HR 1044? This bill would dramatically change our employment green card distribution system by eliminating a safeguard that prevents green card numbers from being monopolized by citizens of one or two countries. Known as the “per country cap,” this provision ensures that the employment-based visas are available to a truly global pool of talent in a wide variety of occupational sectors. It should not be scrapped; eliminating it would benefit one industry (Big Tech) and two groups of applicants (Indian tech workers and Chinese investors) and squeeze out all others. House Democrats reportedly are trying to pass the bill on the Consensus Calendar, which allows the bill to pass on a fast track without a hearing or rule for amendments. www.cnsnews.com/commentary/jessica-vaughan/what-fairness-high-skilled-immigrants-act-and-what-does-it-mean-us
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Post by avordvet on Jul 30, 2019 3:51:21 GMT -5
India Ambassador Praises House for Outsourcing U.S. College Jobs to IndiansNeil Munro, 24 Jul 2019 India’s government and companies are openly pushing for the U.S. Senate passage of a bipartisan “country caps” bill that would reward 100,000 Indian graduates per year with green cards if they take technology jobs in America. “I must compliment the U.S. House of Representatives for adopting the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants bill which removes country caps on the H1B visas,” Indian ambassador Harsh Shringla told a D.C. meeting of lobbyists and advocates on Tuesday. He continued: “I think this is an important initiative. We have worked with congressmen across the board, and we’re happy this is a bipartisan initiative in Congress, and we’re hopeful the Senate would follow course and also adopt the bill.” The meeting at the Wilson Center in D.C. was arranged by NASSCOM, an Indian trade association, which includes many companies that use the H-1B visa program to place Indian software programmers in U.S. jobs. NASSCOM’s chairman, Keshav Murugesh, told the group at the Wilson Center: www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/24/india-ambassador-praises-house-outsourcing-us-college-jobs-indians/
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Post by avordvet on Oct 23, 2019 3:57:05 GMT -5
Uber Lays Off 400 U.S. Employees, Imports Hundreds of Foreign WorkersJohn Binder. 18 Oct 2019 Uber Technologies Inc. is laying off 400 American employees at its California offices while seeking to import hundreds of foreign workers through the H-1B visa program. As detailed by the Mercury News, Uber laid off 88 U.S. employees in August and is laying off about 320 U.S. employees this month at its San Francisco and Palo Alto offices. In total, Uber executives said about 350 U.S. employees had been laid off. The majority of the layoffs are software engineers. Simultaneously, Uber has sought to import more than 1,000 foreign workers through the H-1B visa to take U.S. jobs in Fiscal Year 2019. This year, alone, Uber asked to import up to 1,129 H-1B foreign workers despite the layoffs. www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/10/18/uber-lays-off-400-u-s-employees-imports-hundreds-of-foreign-workers/
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Post by avordvet on Feb 3, 2020 16:07:08 GMT -5
The List: 26 GOP Senators, 97 House Republicans Ask for More Foreign Workers to Fill U.S. JobsJohn Binder, 28 Jan 2020 123 Republicans in the Senate and House are pleading with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf to bring more foreign workers to the United States to compete against working-class Americans for jobs. In a letter to Wolf, 26 Republican Senators and 97 Republican House members joined 66 Senate and House Democrats in demanding DHS allow businesses to bring an additional roughly 30,000 foreign workers on the H-2B visa program to take nonagricultural blue-collar U.S. jobs. Every year, U.S. companies are allowed to import 66,000 low-skilled H-2B foreign workers to take blue-collar, non-agricultural jobs. For some time, the H-2B visa program has been used by businesses to bring in cheaper, foreign workers and has contributed to blue-collar Americans having their wages undercut. www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/28/the-list-123-republicans-foreign-workers/
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