The lefties here scream about outsourcing. Well, here's your chance to crow. Look at what Edison is doing.
I thing the program should be eliminated like Sen Sessions and others suggest
-Geaux
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A loophole in immigration law is costing thousands of American jobs - LA Times
The H-1B program has turned into a scam for outsourcing firms and their U.S. clients. Congress must fix it so it serves its original purpose. Instead, a measure introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) would increase the number of available H-1B visas to 115,000 per year. Democrats Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), whose state is home to Cargill, and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, where Northeast Utilities announced plans last year to outsource some 200 IT jobs, have signed on as co-sponsors. But critics say the bill would do almost nothing to stem the abuses.
Some pushback is coming from legislators such as Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.); Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa); and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.).
Sessions asked, in a "primer" for his GOP colleagues last month, why Congress should ever consider "advancing legislation that provides jobs for the citizens of other countries at the expense of our own."
As it stands now, the H-1B program works chiefly for employers looking for new ways to fire older, experienced workers. One laid-off Edison worker put it best: "When you are referred to as a commodity or a cost, not even treated as a human being, it's pretty degrading."
I thing the program should be eliminated like Sen Sessions and others suggest
-Geaux
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A loophole in immigration law is costing thousands of American jobs - LA Times
The H-1B program has turned into a scam for outsourcing firms and their U.S. clients. Congress must fix it so it serves its original purpose. Instead, a measure introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) would increase the number of available H-1B visas to 115,000 per year. Democrats Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), whose state is home to Cargill, and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, where Northeast Utilities announced plans last year to outsource some 200 IT jobs, have signed on as co-sponsors. But critics say the bill would do almost nothing to stem the abuses.
Some pushback is coming from legislators such as Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.); Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa); and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.).
Sessions asked, in a "primer" for his GOP colleagues last month, why Congress should ever consider "advancing legislation that provides jobs for the citizens of other countries at the expense of our own."
As it stands now, the H-1B program works chiefly for employers looking for new ways to fire older, experienced workers. One laid-off Edison worker put it best: "When you are referred to as a commodity or a cost, not even treated as a human being, it's pretty degrading."
