Do you or anyone else know of American tech workers that can't find a job? I know that I'm constantly getting job interview offers - it gets annoying.
Well, there are all those workers from Disney, So. Cal. Edison, and Apple; who were fired so that Indian IT workers could have their jobs.
But hey, they were made to train their replacements, so it's all good.
I doubt that the tech industry will be affected by this at all. This would only be meaningful if there were a whole lot of American tech workers that couldn't find a job.
I guess that if this did cut off foreign workers, it would result in American tech workers getting much higher salaries - and American businesses would be screwed.
The tech industry has been decimated. This particularly hits the mid-level support people who used to handle support for Dell, IBM, Apple, HP, etc. Now they are without jobs but the H1B's have full employment!
Radical left Mother Jones reports;
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Of course, the big tech companies claim H-1B workers are their last resort, and that they can't find qualified Americans to fill jobs. Pressing to raise the visa cap last year, Microsoft pointed to 6,000 job openings at the company.
Yet if tech workers are in such short supply, why are so many of them unemployed or underpaid? According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), tech employment rates still haven't rebounded to pre-recession levels. And from 2001 to 2011, the mean hourly wage for computer programmers didn't even increase enough to beat inflation.
The ease of hiring H-1B workers certainly hasn't helped. More than 80 percent of H-1B visa holders are approved to be hired at wages below those paid to American-born workers for comparable positions, according to EPI. Experts who track labor conditions in the technology sector say that older, more expensive workers are particularly vulnerable to being undercut by their foreign counterparts. "You can be an exact match and never even get a phone call because you are too expensive," says Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California-Davis. "The minute that they see you've got 10 or 15 years of experience, they don't want you."}
How H-1B Visas Are Screwing Tech Workers