Continued reporting concerning H-1B workers and labor fairness and symmetry.
Two Breitbart item are helpful. Recall that Bannon has had his Breitbart ties which must remain strong, and the Mercer family is supporting the outlet. Robert Mercer has been a computer services and high-tech investment trader who at times used H-1B labor in the past, or likely did. From their perspective reasonable ideas arose.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) slammed the government’s H-1B outsourcing
program on Thursday, saying, “It should never be cheaper for a
corporation to hire a guest worker from overseas than an American
worker.”
Further, we must also significantly raise the minimum
wage for guest workers, allow them to easily switch jobs, and make sure
that corporations are required to aggressively recruit American workers
first before they can hire workers from overseas. The widespread
corporate abuse of the H-1B program must be ended.
I’ve always felt we have to have the most competent
people in our country. We need competent people. We need smart people
coming into our country. We need a lot of people coming in. We’re going
to have jobs like we’ve never had before.
Trump’s comments have prompted bitter criticism from some of his supporters.
[...] Other left-wing advocates [a misinformative term used by Breitbart for anyone more liberal than them, hence inclusive of too many GOP-lite Dem folks] — here, here, here, here, and here — are also spotlighting the damage done to American college grads by their replacement in massive numbers throughout the white-collar economy.
[...] But most elected Democrats
are defending the replacement of middle-class Americans by foreign
graduates who accept long hours, lower pay, and workplace subordination
in exchange for the dangled promise of government-supplied green cards
and citizenship.
The green cards are especially valuable to Indian migrants because
they allow them — and all of their descendants — to get citizenship and
live far from India’s poverty and caste system.
[...] California’s start-up investors strongly favor the H-1B program
because it allows them to avoid paying American professionals with
equity shares of their start-up companies.
Wall Street investors and their Fortune 500 CEOs and their C-Suite
executives also benefit when the lower H-1B salaries bump up share
prices and their quarterly bonuses.
In 2020, Sanders was pushed out of the Democrat primary race when
California’s investor class backed Joe Biden. In 2015, Sanders slammed
the progressives’ push for mass migration, saying, “Open borders?
That’s a Koch brothers proposal.” [video was embedded by Breitbart, as linked here]
There is sense to balanced pay to discourage Indian nationals being hired because they will work for less than American nationals, and with lessened job mobility than American nationals - i.e., level playing field disincentive for mischief.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a growing vested financial
interest in the federal government continuing the highly controversial
H-1B visa program that imports foreign workers – mostly from India – to
take white-collar American jobs, new data reveals.
For weeks, supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, as well as others, have spoken out
against the H-1B visa program after a debate was sparked online with
Musk recently telling the program’s critics to “f**k yourself in the
face.”
“The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who
built SpaceX, Tesla, and hundreds of other companies that made America
strong is because of H1B,” Musk wrote on X. “Take a big step back and
FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of
which you cannot possibly comprehend.”
Vivek Ramaswamy joined
in the debate, seemingly siding with Musk in support of the H-1B visa
program and trashing American culture as having “venerated mediocrity.”
New data, compiled by the National Foundation for
American Policy (NFAP), shows that Musk has a vast financial interest in
keeping the H-1B visa program up and running as Tesla grows its foreign
workforce in the United States.
Tesla, led by Elon Musk, showed a significant increase in
H-1B approved petitions, rising to 16th on the list of most approved
H-1B petitions for initial employment in FY 2024 after not appearing in
the top 25 among employers in previous years. Tesla had 742
approved H1B petitions for initial employment in FY 2024, more than
double its total of 328 in FY 2023 and 337 in FY 2022. Tesla
also had 1,025 H-1B petitions for continuing employment (primarily
extensions for existing employees) approved in FY 2024. [Emphasis added]
The report comes as laid-off Tesla employees recently told Electrek.com that Musk has replaced thousands of American workers with foreign H-1B visa workers.
[...]Electrek.com reports. “These claims are backed by U.S. Department of
Labor data, which show that Tesla requested over 2,000 H-1B visas during
the time it was laying off U.S. workers.”
[...] For years, Breitbart News has chronicled the abuses
against white-collar American professionals as a result of the H-1B visa
program. Americans are often laid off in the process and forced to train their foreign replacements, as highlighted by Breitbart News.
There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreign workers in the U.S. at any given moment.
Research, published in
the September issue of the Journal of Business Ethics, reviewed wage
data that was hacked from Deloitte to compare starting wages for foreign
H-1B visa workers with their American counterparts.
Deloitte paid foreign H-1B visa workers about 10 percent less than Americans doing the same line of work, the results showed.
[bolding and links in original] The items, viewed together, suggest Musk is gaming the system while acting offended that the world might have some disagreement with his practices. Perhaps he upgraded competence, which he should. But if he cut costs to do that then he's fucking citizens of the nation and should stop.
Labor mobility in an ultimate globalized world is different from "do it now to make bigger profits." That is the Koch agenda. And for Elon, he'd rather hire in skilled Indian nationals on his terms than to invest capital overseas in plant and equipment in India subject to India's terms. "Labor mobility" as a concept should not be used as a way to circumvent plant and equipment investments elsewhere, as that, done incrementally, works toward the ultimate aims of globalization done fairly.
Obviously, opinions can differ, and Musk has a snit against California being too regulatory for his liking and is moving his future Gestalt to Texas, which Crabgrass believes, in balance of all Texas is, should be given back to Mexico if they'd take it.
