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BTW, my husband is an engineer with 2 bachelors and 2 masters in engineering, plus 25+ years experience, not a "dime a dozen" worker. Yet every day we see Indians, Chinese, etc going to work while he sits at home waiting for a call or out pounding the pavement all but begging for a job. I guess the H-1b visa holders are doing jobs he wouldn't/couldn't? Sorry, that's a theory I find hard to accept.
I am in the same boat. I am working my butt off trying to find a job when I see schools hiring teachers on visas. One school I applied at hired a visa for an elementary teaching job! Okay lets see, how many American elementary teachers lost their jobs due to budget cuts? How many teachers out there are subbing because they can't find a job? Schools should not be hiring any teachers on visas, especially at the elementary level.
Just out of curiosity BlueBelt where did that happen? I agree that it's absurd to have to hire foreign teachers as there seems to be a surplus especially at that level. I wonder what the reasoning was, bilingual or something?
we are oozing with anti labor laws and policies. unions would prevent this, americans hate unions.
21 million illegal mexican workers, our government does not know how they got here nor where they work.
Just out of curiosity BlueBelt where did that happen? I agree that it's absurd to have to hire foreign teachers as there seems to be a surplus especially at that level. I wonder what the reasoning was, bilingual or something?
It was in Arizona where 5000 teachers lost their jobs. There are plenty of bilingual teachers who are US citizens that lost their jobs.
we are oozing with anti labor laws and policies. unions would prevent this, americans hate unions.
21 million illegal mexican workers, our government does not know how they got here nor where they work.
Thank God I am in a state that is notorious to being unfriendly to unions. I worked at a company overrun by unions and it was the worst experience of my life. Raises, promotions, EVERYTHING was governed by the union. Didn't matter that I worked harder than the person next to me-- since they had more years of tenure than I did they were considered first for everything. Nothing was based on merit. Awful.
I am in the same boat. I am working my butt off trying to find a job when I see schools hiring teachers on visas. One school I applied at hired a visa for an elementary teaching job! Okay lets see, how many American elementary teachers lost their jobs due to budget cuts? How many teachers out there are subbing because they can't find a job? Schools should not be hiring any teachers on visas, especially at the elementary level.
Bluebelt-- this is really surprising to me and in fact I google'd it because I had no idea that there were areas where this is common. The articles I read did not even point out to a rationale. I can't imagine with the amount of surplus teachers we have that there would be any reason to hire a foreigner for a teaching role.
Other jobs-- I understand and I do not have any problems with the hiring of an H1-B. For some of the posters, I don't know why their spouses, etc have not been hired for certain jobs, but like another poster the hires I have been involved with in the past would LOVE to have fresh American graduates for jobs, but there just have not been the students of US nationality graduating from those programs.
I feel awful for the predicament you are experiencing.
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One school I applied at hired a visa for an elementary teaching job! Okay lets see, how many American elementary teachers lost their jobs due to budget cuts?
How many teachers out there are subbing because they can't find a job?
Schools should not be hiring any teachers on visas, especially at the elementary level.
