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Aug 16

Big Tech: “We can’t find qualified Americans to fill these positions.”

Also Big Tech: “We need to place these PERM job ads where no Americans will see them.”

Facebook “couldn’t find qualified Americans” — so they hid jobs from their careers site, refused to consider U.S. workers, and made applicants mail resumes by postal mail, DOJ says.

cnbc.com/2021/10/19/fac…

Apple “couldn’t find qualified Americans” — so they hid jobs from their careers site, refused to consider U.S. workers, and made applicants mail resumes by postal mail. Paid a fine and settled with the DOJ.

fortune.com/2023/11/09/app…

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Aug 9

https://twitter.com/breitbartnews/status/1954177904876618141

Trump admin is defending an Obama-era policy that grants work authorization to the spouses of H-1B workers from India in the Green Card queue — even though Congress never approved it — and is urging SCOTUS to toss out a case brought by former U.S. tech workers.

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https://twitter.com/breitbartnews/status/1954177904876618141

In 2015, Obama’s DHS unilaterally gave certain H-4 visa holders — spouses of H-1B guest workers — the right to work in the U.S., even though Congress never approved it.

This has opened the door for hundreds of thousands of additional foreign workers to compete directly with Americans for jobs, despite the original H-4 visa having no work privileges.

While H-1B workers are bound to their employers and must file a labor condition application to ensure they are paid a prevailing wage and that their presence won’t harm American workers (though it’s obviously a rigged process), H-4 EAD holders face none of those requirements — they can work ANY job at ANY wage level.

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U.S. Tech Workers

@USTechWorkers

Jul 30

If you want to understand how the law lets employers legally pay H‑1B workers less than market wages and how that harms American workers, our latest Substack explains it.

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At the heart of this is the Labor Condition Application (LCA), a brief form employers submit to @USDOL before hiring H‑1B workers.

It’s meant to protect local wage standards and keep Americans from being undercut. In practice, it’s a rubber‑stamp process with no real scrutiny.

The system relies on employers to truthfully select wage levels based on an H‑1B worker’s skills and experience. But because the DOL can’t verify that information, employers exploit this asymmetry, labeling skilled roles as entry‑level to pay lower wages:

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@USTechWorkers

Jul 18

Last week, we showed how the engineering degree — once a solid path to the middle class — is failing new American grads.

This week, we looked at Computer Science.

If you thought engineering grads were struggling, computer science grads are faring even worse.

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Let’s talk about the salary myth.

CS starting salaries have barely moved: just $1,727 growth since 2015—a 1.8% bump in 8 years.

The only real gain came in 2014–15 ($8,924). Since then? Flat.

The market says CS grads are worth what they were a decade ago.

Salaries are flat, and job prospects are worse.

CS grads with full-time jobs 6 months after graduation fell from 73.2% (2014) to 64.3% (2023). For programming majors: 69% → 50%.

Unemployment: 6.1%
Underemployed: 16.5%

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@USTechWorkers

Jul 11

1/ While American engineering graduates struggle with stagnant wages and limited job opportunities, they face an additional challenge that receives insufficient attention: intense competition from foreign guest workers who are systematically imported to fill engineering positions.

The scope of this competition is staggering. In 2023, while America graduated 137,237 citizen engineers with bachelor's or master's degrees, the federal government simultaneously approved at least 33,836 foreign guest workers with engineering backgrounds through just three major guest worker programs.

(Link to the Substack article in the replies)

2/ Link to article: open.substack.com/pub/ifspp/p/da…

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Mar 29

AI isn’t taking your job; India is.

NYT: “… tariffs reduce trade by making goods more expensive; they don’t affect services or offshoring, the practice of hiring workers overseas… Indian workers are doing the kind of jobs that Americans workers envy — for American companies.”

Major American tech companies, along with leading American banks, proudly highlight their large offices in India and remain unconcerned about Trump’s tariffs. They believe his focus is mainly on the $46 billion trade deficit, rather than on the offshoring of professional jobs.

Why are American companies offshoring to India? It’s for cheap labor of course, which corporate admits saves costs. But that doesn’t stop reporter @travelli from pushing the debunked “labor shortage” propaganda. Imagine claiming this amid mass tech layoffs in the U.S. right now.

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