Republican Senators
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) have been fighting
the good fight of exposing the "shortage" BS surrounding STEM
workers (Science, Tech., Eng. & Math) in which many companies
claim there is a "shortage" in order to rent more visa
workers from other countries. It's an issue I've often written about.
In short, businesses
lobby for more STEM visa workers, typically under the H-1B and L-1 visa
programs, because such visa workers are more abuse-able due the
practical circumstances they are in, because they are
typically under-payed for the type of work they do, and because
having the world to choose from means companies are less likely to
have to train a citizen on a specific set of tools that the company
happens to be using.
The STEM lie was
exposed recently as Microsoft was caught hiring visa works AND laying
off large counts of citizen technology workers at the same time after a slump in sales. They didn't
want to bother to re-train many of their very own employees on
different technologies, despite having reasonably close experience, choosing new visa workers instead.
For example, rather than re-training PC programmers on mobile device
programming (tablets and smart-phones), they let go long-time PC
programmers and rented new mobile programmers under visa programs.
That's not
"shortage", that's cherry-picking for free. Their excuses were laughable and disturbing at the same time,
revealing an almost psychopath view of the world.
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