Hardly a week goes by that we don’t see reports on American companies’ efforts to take advantage of cheap foreign labor — usually abroad but also in the United States.\u00a0 The U.S. government’s H-1B visa program provides 85,000 visas a year to foreigners with skills that American workers supposedly don’t have (but who work for a small fraction of the pay).\u00a0 Disney World just laid off a couple hundred American workers to make way for cheaper replacements from India.\u00a0 South California Edison, a power utility, did the same thing to 450 workers.\u00a0 Neither company even bothered to try to argue that the American workers lacked the necessary skills.\u00a0 The U.S. government has done nothing to investigate and stop such practices, while it spends billions to keep out and kick out low-wage workers.\u00a0 It just keeps issuing the visas.<\/p>\n
No surprise that legislation to require companies importing this labor to demonstrate a good-faith effort to hire Americans first can’t pass.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hardly a week goes by that we don’t see reports on American companies’ efforts to take advantage of cheap foreign labor — usually abroad but also in the United States.\u00a0 The U.S. government’s H-1B visa program provides 85,000 visas a … Continue reading