I ’m sick and tired of the H-1B industrial complex. Everyone seems to be making money—tech companies, universities, Indian outsourcing firms, and immigration lawyers—except U.S. citizens. Let’s all use the term H-1B INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. @USTechWorkers@amandalouise416@GavinWax
BREAKING:
Indian H-1B worker Sundaram Ramachandran has been accused of online fraud.
He allegedly used multiple X accounts to solicit around $20,000 in donations from various individuals while posing posing under the name of fake unregistered Indian American Advocacy Council.
Hi @StephenM we really need this and we really need the A team at Heritage and DOJ to come down like a wrecking ball on the first attorney general that files suit trying to stop it.
BREAKING NEWS:
The final H-1B wage hike rule has been submitted to the White House for review.
No more getting away with cheap labor at American workers' expense. 🇺🇸
We agree that offshoring American jobs is a serious problem.
But why is the choice always H-1Bs or moving jobs to India?
What happened to the THIRD option?
1. Hire Americans.
2. Train American graduates.
3. Invest in American talent.
And if corporations insist on outsourcing, Congress should consider taxing offshore labor.
Why is investing in American workers never the first option?
Especially now that we have AI, I have no idea what the purpose of an H-1B software engineer is.
It’s not an esoteric field where we need people trained abroad. Everything is on the internet.
Even more shocking is that many of them are not even at the entry level expected here.
“The new wages do not apply yet, and they will not apply the day the White House finishes its review. Three steps come first: review at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which has no minimum length; publication in the Federal Register; and, because this is a major rule, a wait of at least 60 days before it takes effect.” https://t.co/gewjM7j2IV
🚨 NEARLY 600 COLLEGES ARE FIGHTING TRUMP'S PROPOSED $70,000 OPT FEE.
Universities warn it could drive foreign students away.
A survey found 69% of international students questioned might never have enrolled under these fees.
But here's the question:
Why should American graduates compete against a government-created foreign-worker program without Congress first examining its impact on American jobs?
https://t.co/ISEC3hkCKn
IBM, once known for its lifetime employment, now forces its U.S. workers to train foreign replacements as a condition of severance. In an odd twist, IBM is offering U.S. workers the opportunity to apply for jobs in its facilities in low-cost countries such as India and Brazil at local wage rates.
I wrote this in 2009
https://t.co/UBs2SL8y9l
From this article:
A recent Trump administration policy imposing a $100,000 H-1B visa fee caused even the Chamber of Commerce to admit this reality. As my colleague George Fishman points out, the Chamber’s court filing against that policy declares that “employers need not show that their prospective [H-1B] workers are the best of the best, but merely highly skilled”, and that imposing a best-and-brightest requirement “undercuts the very existence of the program”.
About @IBM offshoring
20 years ago, IBM adopted the H-1B Outsourcing business model pioneered by Infosys
CEO Sam Palmisano wrote a @ForeignAffairs piece & IBM held an historic shareholder mtg in Bangalore
IBM exploited visa programs while US Presidents looked the other way
@SanDiegoKnight@ChillMode2345 Yes, they face bankruptcy without international students. Their business model relies on revenue from international students while damaging the lives of American students.
$IBM follow-up.
IBM's own careers site right now: 1,016 open listings in its Consulting job category. 769 are in India. 92 are in the United States.
That's 76% India. 9% U.S.
Across every IBM job category, it's 1,870 openings in India and 470 in the U.S.
Today IBM said it's ending visa and green card sponsorship for most roles in IBM Consulting, a unit with more than 150,000 people. Affected workers can keep working for IBM outside the U.S. or leave at the end of the year.
So the sponsorship goes away, the worker gets offered a job abroad, and the open Consulting listings already run more than 8 to 1 India over the U.S.
Fewer H-1Bs doesn't automatically mean more American hires.
Watch the job board, not the press release y'all.
This is @Cloudwatch199’s alt account. He is pretending it is a different person.
Just 3 years ago his display name was Sundaram on his main account.
You can see for yourself. The post is still up.
Very sad crash-out. He lost so much izzat he is trying to convince himself now.