This needs to go viral: https://www.petition2congress.com/ctas/abolish-h1b-visa-program
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H1B visa, L1 visa or whatever visa which is basically a huge slave pool for greedy corporations should be abolished and politicians supporting it put in jail. This is slow death for this country and nothing less of humanitarian abuse.
What country in this world lets its corporations import slave labors? Slave labor because they are getting paid as such and all the money spent on their expenses is basically a tax deduction at the end of the year. The people leaving here lose, the government loses. Corrupt politicians and wallstreet is winning big time. The people coming here to slave are losing too..they are getting abused.
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Your concerns about H-1B visas are misplaced. With all the Indians that work at Honeywell, you can't believe that they are lucky enough to snag that many visas from a lottery. The real threat is the L-1 visa. This lets muli-national corporations like Honeywell bring as many Indians as they want. They simply rotate the Indians through 5 to 7 year stints and never have to hire US citizens.
Feel free to sign. Get the visa banned. The result will be a speed up of work leaving the country.
At least with the visa, tax gets paid here and they spend salary here.
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/BAHA/h-1b-2007-2017-trend-tables.pdf
H1b visa is corporate slavery pure and simple. It should be ilegal and those who came up with the idea should be rotting in a jail cell. Those who support it including the workers themselves are just tools.
I have no problem with our Indian counterparts- this isn't their fault, they are just trying to make a living for themselves and their families as well. But don't fool yourselves; this is not about fat lazy Americans not doing their jobs. It's completely about greed and money. The cost of living in the United States- in most high tech areas anyway- is unsustainably high for the average worker with any family to support and wages must somehow compromise with cost of living escalations. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The Hb1 visa program is a huge problem and has been abused by many large US corporations. Honeywell is just one of them, but more will follow if it's not stopped.
@OMhG5hS-moi. You are delusional. This board is full of companies that are laying off home bred workers and is either replacing jobs with h1b visas or outsourcing. It is having an impact and will not bode well in the long run for those who choose to live here. Many of these companies are then raising their prices out of reach to the common consumer. Corporation greed will have greater impacts than you can imagine. The next financial crisis is around the corner and will be worse than 2007/2008. There will be no jobs here as they will be gone, expect mayhem.
What a load of bull. H1B is limited to 60,000 PER YEAR , hardly a threat to the job pool.
I feel torn by this, to be brutally honest. While I see many jobs being outsourced to foreign countries, I have to look at it in a logical sense. Why is this happening? Because they are much cheaper resources. Bottom line. I hate the fact that employment gets more difficult in the states because of this, cost of living, etc., but I also very much appreciate why our foreign workers are fighting for these jobs. There doesn't seem to be a solution. Most of the workers from India (HTS) that I have had the opportunity to meet and work with, have been far more accommodating, helpful, hard-working, and driven than my lazy fat American counterparts that act 'entitled'. It's bigger than our company. This is what America itself has become.