• MEDIA: Big Tech's Layoffs Highlight How the US Fails Immigrant Workers

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 27 12:51:33 2023
    Via Brave,
    <URL:https://search.brave.com/news?q=H-1B>
    see Wired's Anna Kramer on whether Donald Trump regrets dispatching
    Jared and Ivanka Kushner to Silicon Valley to sue for peace with
    the likes of Mark Zuckerberg: <URL:https://www.wired.com/story/big-techs-layoffs-highlight-how-the-us-fails-immigrant-workers/>
    | Khan of the International Federation of Professional and Technical
    | Engineers argues that rather than increase the number of H-1B visas,
    | the US needs to invest more in skills training for American workers,
    | and that US companies should be forced to compete for the domestic
    | worker pool instead of drawing in overseas workers who can reduce
    | pressure to increase wages.
    |
    | IT consulting firms are among the heaviest users of H-1Bs and pay
    | significantly less than West Coast tech companies. "Employers and
    | employer groups claim that there is this ongoing high-skills labor
    | shortage," Khan says. "This is driven by narrative and anecdote, and
    | not really by verifiable data."

    Does Kellyanne Conway fear that Ken Griffin and Lachlan Murdoch will
    allow Ron DeSantis to outflank Trump from the right on the National
    Question by inviting the likes of Mike Emmons to argue that the Cheap
    Labor Lobby imports scab workers to disadvantage legacy American
    proles and their posterity?
    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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