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MisdemeanorRebel
2017 May 14, 9:48am
Southern California Edison laid off 500 employees, warning SCE workers to train their replacements in 90 days or they wouldn’t receive severance.
The "Train your replacement or no severance" is the key to the whole thing. This proves that there isn't a skill shortage, since there were already skilled workers working, and the company is only replacing them to pay lower wages.
Patrick
2017 May 14, 4:25pm
Q: Special Disney-invented visa for workers who are “authentic to the Epcot experienceâ€
Lol, I'm starting to think Disney is an even worse influence on our government than the Saudis are.
57% of Americans (179 million) do not have $500 saved in order to cover an unexpected expense, such as medical bill, car repair bill, etc.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/most-americans-cant-afford-a-500-emergency-expense/
By AIMEE PICCHI MONEYWATCH January 12, 2017, 11:39 AM
A $500 surprise expense would put most Americans into debt
Most Americans nevertheless remain one misstep away from a financial crisis.Â
Fifty-seven percent of Americans don’t have enough cash to cover a $500 unexpected expense...
The NEXT FINANCIAL DOWNTURN (it's already begun - you can see it slowing SUV, pickup, auto sales, retail and restaurants slowing way down, and housing starting to decline in most areas) is going to hurt very much.
The Numbers of Replaced American Workers are Staggering
In 2015, the number of visas issued to all immigrants crossing the borders legally was almost 11 million, according to statistics collected at Foreign Service Posts.
Supposedly, the government has set a cap of 85,000 new H-1B’s each year for the entire country. But many workers come in using other types of visas such as:
OPT: Optional Practical Training
F-1: student
B-1: business
J-1: exchange visitor
CPT: (Curricular Practical Training) interns who are recruited later
Q: Special Disney-invented visa for workers who are “authentic to the Epcot experienceâ€Workers then switch to an H-1B. Switches are not recorded as part of the 85,000 cap and there are no checks and balances in place to reign in visa clearances.
The Department of State, who issues worker visas, reports figures for all 16 different types of work-eligible visas, showing that 70 million have been issued since 2...
I agree that many H1-B visa's are just bullshit. But you really need to find a better source that presents more accurate facts with less histrionics. They randomly mix different types of statistics that don't relate to each other.
There were 11 million visa's issued, but only 800,000 work visa's. Why count tourist visa's when talking about worker replacement? Tourist visa's aren't work eligible. BS meaningless statistic.
It's not easy to switch to a H1-B from other visa's. Some visa's like J1 require you to go home for 2 years. The article is wrong on counting visa switches You apply for an open H1-B visa if you want to switch. The visa switch does go against the yearly 85,000 except for exempted employers who don't go against it anyway. OPT isn't a separate visa, it's an add on to an existing student visa to allow them to intern in the summer. That's why it's called opt, it's optional for a student visa.
Funny that they missed the fact that there are hundreds of organizations that are cap exempt and don't count. Here are the top 500 https://www.h1b.io/blog/list-h1b-cap-exempt-employers/ that probably represent another 20,000 outside the cap.
Of course they know how many H1-B's are out there. The state department issues all of them. The only unknown is anyone who left early without letting the state department know. The company will certainly be letting the state department know asap if someone leaves since they will want a new applicant. Totally meaningless irrelevant point taken way out of context.
FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2017 May 15, 8:21am
The more you remove government, the better America will be for its citizens.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem that either political party other than Rand Paul, is really trying to do this.
Opioid Overdose Deaths One Reason for Decline in US Life Expectancy
http://www.voanews.com/a/opioid-overdose-deaths-one-reason-for-decline-in-us-life-expectancy/3680875.html
66 million Americans have no emergency savings
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/21/66-million-americans-have-no-emergency-savings.html
Easy retirement for Americans? It’s only for a privileged few.
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/17/easy-retirement-privileged-few/
Insourcing: American Lose Jobs to H-1B Visa Workers
Corporations such as Toys ‘R Us, Xerox, Molina Medical, Pfizer, and Microsoft used H-1B “guest†workers to reduce their payroll costs. Utility company Southern California Edison laid off 500 employees, warning SCE workers to train their replacements in 90 days or they wouldn’t receive severance.
The Numbers of Replaced American Workers are Staggering
In 2015, the number of visas issued to all immigrants crossing the borders legally was almost 11 million, according to statistics collected at Foreign Service Posts.
Supposedly, the government has set a cap of 85,000 new H-1B’s each year for the entire country. But many workers come in using other types of visas such as:
OPT: Optional Practical Training
F-1: student
B-1: business
J-1: exchange visitor
CPT: (Curricular Practical Training) interns who are recruited later
Q: Special Disney-invented visa for workers who are “authentic to the Epcot experienceâ€
Workers then switch to an H-1B. Switches are not recorded as part of the 85,000 cap and there are no checks and balances in place to reign in visa clearances.
The Department of State, who issues worker visas, reports figures for all 16 different types of work-eligible visas, showing that 70 million have been issued since 2007.
When the Government Accountability Office studied the H-1B visa program in 2011, they reported reasons why the numbers of guest workers are impossible to track:
The total number of H-1B workers in the U.S. at any one time—and information about the length of their stay—is unknown, because (1) data systems among the various agencies that process such individuals are not linked so individuals cannot be readily tracked, and (2) H-1B workers are not assigned a unique identifier that would allow for tracking them over time—particularly if and when their visa status changes.
The AFL-CIO reported in 2009 that as many as 25% of imported workers have fraudulent visas. Today, this translates to as many as 17.5 million foreign employees gaming the system.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judy-frankel/insourcing-american-lose-_b_11173074.html
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