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http://www.computerworld.com/articl...es-at-disney-over-use-of-foreign-workers.html
Southern California Edison recentlly did the same with its employees. Any employee who complained was threatened. The investigation has to grant employes a way to secretlly testify to Congress. The H1-B law isn't being enforced. It is only to be used if there is no US Worker available to do the same job.
Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and many companies lobby Congress to take advantage of the H1-B corporate tax deduction that involves bringing foreign workers to the US.
"Team Disney" threw IT workers, some who received the excellence awards out of the wonderland.
This is not outsourcing, sending work overseas. They replace existing US workers, often for the same pay (to the job brokers), by importing foreign workers with the H-1B visa. From the Corporation point-of-view these foreign workers are cheaper.
Bill Gates and a host of other wealthy corporation owners swore to Congress that there is a dire shortage of IT workers in the US. Many in Congress respond to the powerful H1-B Visa lobby. The tax incentives are so powerful, companies can't resist.
Now the lobby wants to rais the yearly cap to open the flood gates. The GAO (Government Accounting Office) admits, they have lost track of how many have entered and even where the previous H1-B visas are today.
Lobbies are much more powerful than Democracy in the US.
Southern California Edison recentlly did the same with its employees. Any employee who complained was threatened. The investigation has to grant employes a way to secretlly testify to Congress. The H1-B law isn't being enforced. It is only to be used if there is no US Worker available to do the same job.
Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and many companies lobby Congress to take advantage of the H1-B corporate tax deduction that involves bringing foreign workers to the US.
"Team Disney" threw IT workers, some who received the excellence awards out of the wonderland.
This is not outsourcing, sending work overseas. They replace existing US workers, often for the same pay (to the job brokers), by importing foreign workers with the H-1B visa. From the Corporation point-of-view these foreign workers are cheaper.
Bill Gates and a host of other wealthy corporation owners swore to Congress that there is a dire shortage of IT workers in the US. Many in Congress respond to the powerful H1-B Visa lobby. The tax incentives are so powerful, companies can't resist.
Now the lobby wants to rais the yearly cap to open the flood gates. The GAO (Government Accounting Office) admits, they have lost track of how many have entered and even where the previous H1-B visas are today.
Lobbies are much more powerful than Democracy in the US.
