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Also, New York Life Insurance was also guilty of doing this. (I found that from the same article about the Toys "R" US thing.)
So now that's Disney, Southern California Edison, Abbot Labs, Toys "R" US, Northeast Utilities, New York Life Insurance, and Fossil. Also, the Indian consulting companies Tata Consultancy Services and HCL America also should be busted along with the seven companies above.
At this point, we HAVE to boycott, even if it creates a temporary price hike. We're like a snake eating its tail right now and need to stop the cycle or we're going to destroy ourselves in the future.
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The current president likes to outsource US jobs, to spread the wealth.
The whitehouse is also directed by big companies and lobbyists to increase H1B visa counts.
The US worker is hurt by this and has every right to cry about it!
The current president has gone to India and called them a big net producer of American jobs. That was the last time I listened to anything he had to say. I've spent the last 7 years pretending he doesn't exist. He thinks the whole issue is a myth and a joke which is pretty much what I think about his presidency.
I'm the only American on my team. Everyone else is from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, or China.
In my previous team, it was the same way. I was the only American born citizen. Everyone else was here on a H1B visa from India. Even the manager was Indian.
The worst part about it was that this manager, who married a US citizen to obtain citizenship, was helping the H1B's through the process to obtain US citizenship. Part of the process involves interviewing US citizens for the H1B holders' job to prove that there is no one here is capable of the work. These people were wasting time interviewing for a job that didn't even exist! The H1B visa holder admitted that there were some good candidates, but together they made up reasons to put down on the application why they couldn't be hired. It was a disgrace!
Corporate profits go up, shareholders are happy, the rich get richer.
...and middle class jobs evaporate like the rain. Nevermind that literally every other top 25 GDP countries, outside the US, practice one or multiple forms of protectionism
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Yes, I have many Indian guest workers where I work and I have to feel lucky I have my good job for now at least. The trend is toward sending all the work to India or to workers from India living here in the USA. It's scary. I don't hate the Indian people but it is a big change in who I work with and there is definitely less of my American-born friends at work anymore. They lose their jobs and never come back.
I heard the Indian folks are paid like 1/6th what the Americans are. How is this fair to the Indian worker? It is exploiting them too. It may be our new "slavery". Would the rise up and demand better pay? How can they? They risk having to return to a lower paying job in India?
In my previous team, it was the same way. I was the only American born citizen. Everyone else was here on a H1B visa from India. Even the manager was Indian.
The worst part about it was that this manager, who married a US citizen to obtain citizenship, was helping the H1B's through the process to obtain US citizenship. Part of the process involves interviewing US citizens for the H1B holders' job to prove that there is no one here is capable of the work. These people were wasting time interviewing for a job that didn't even exist! The H1B visa holder admitted that there were some good candidates, but together they made up reasons to put down on the application why they couldn't be hired. It was a disgrace!
It's illegal (in the US).
Were the US citizens being interviewed male or female, white or non-white?
Yes, I have many Indian guest workers where I work and I have to feel lucky I have my good job for now at least. The trend is toward sending all the work to India or to workers from India living here in the USA. It's scary. I don't hate the Indian people but it is a big change in who I work with and there is definitely less of my American-born friends at work anymore. They lose their jobs and never come back.
I heard the Indian folks are paid like 1/6th what the Americans are. How is this fair to the Indian worker? It is exploiting them too. It may be our new "slavery". Would the rise up and demand better pay? How can they? They risk having to return to a lower paying job in India?
If 1/6th of what Americans are paid is still 33% - 50% more than what they would have been paid at home, they are not going to care and are not being exploited in their own minds. Kind of like what is happening with Filipinos. Filipinos being paid $10 an hour for jobs which would pay more per hour not including taxes and benefits if the employee were American -- they are not being exploited in their own mines. They're very well compensated for the Phillippines, even if they're scrapping by to live paycheck to paycheck if they were located in America on that salary.
So don't shed a tear for the infinitely more well-compensated H1B visa workers. They're getting along just fine. Fight for Americans.
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