They had to train their Indian replacements to get their severance. My husband quit before he would do that. We're lucky we have no debt.

That's why competent US workers needed to train H1b workers. Corp can't afford to train US workers but can afford to train replacements

Sarcasm

Every H1b worker should be taxed to corp at twice their rate, limited to 6 months, and corp must show they are engaged in traing program for US workers to replace the 'needed' H1b worker. Let's see if it is still cheaper for H1b workers then


There is no shortage of US workers. Only corp lies

They always claim they can't find workers in the US, but time and again, we see people who already DO the jobs being fired and replaced, and training non-US workers instead of other US citizens to be those replacements.

they're betraying their country - all you H1B defenders can fuck yourselves

Interesting. IT has been one of the areas most resistant to unions...

the India based companies the utility has contracted with has hired them.

Time to tighten the laws!

"STEM shortage!" "Asia's eating our lunch!" "we're spending too much on art, history, and music!" "STEM shortage!" "Asia's eating our lunch!" "we're spending too much on art, history, and music!" "STEM shortage!" "Asia's eating our lunch!" "we're spending too much on art, history, and music!" "STEM shortage!" "Asia's eating our lunch!" "we're spending too much on art, history, and music!"

How could you post that in reply to an article about one of it's more public successes?

And being H-1B's they have reduced options to change jobs, so I expect conditions to be harsher. In what way is this all not a pure win for cheap labor international capital?

I worked at Ameriprise in Minneapolis until last year, and there were many people from India working there. They had jobs that millions of unemployed Americans would be happy to have and could easily do. This isn't a question of unqualified American workers; it's a matter of wage arbitrage. Indians and millions of other people across the world will do these jobs for much less than Americans expect/need to be paid. Also, you can treat them like crap and they won't complain.

We (the middle class) let the manufacturing base be offshored, because those were working-class jobs. But now it's happening to white-collar jobs, and they have the audacity to bring the foreign workers here to take our jobs. I don't know the term for this, since it's basically the opposite of offshoring.

Of course, if you complain about it, you're often labeled "anti-immigrant" or even "racist," but the fact is that we're in a global competition for jobs, and we're losing, not because we're "unqualified," but because we expect to be able to maintain a middle-class lifestyle. I don't think that kind of compensation package is too much to ask, considering the executives of these companies are richer than Croesus.

If you don't train them then they cannot do the job. I'd quit before training some new to replace me.