From Jess
"As a computer systems engineer. I am unemployed. We use to be making up to $100,000 dollars a year. Now you can only get a job for $50,000 a year. Due to large companies falsely advertising that we cannot get enough engineers in this country anymore and that we need to import them. What is actually happening is the greedy rich are driving the salaries of working people down by importing engineers and after they get them here they are also taking advantage of them.
Take my friend from India – Simeer – He came to this country on a promise from a company to sponsor and employ him for $45,000 a year. This is a very good wage in India and they think they are getting a good deal. As soon as he started work they upgraded his title to manager to circumvent California overtime laws.
Mind you he had no one working under him. So according to the definitions I was raised by, in actuality he was not even a supervisor.
Now since they are calling him a manager, they are working him 60 hours plus a week for the same $45,000 a year. Also he is afraid to say anything or fight it because his work visa depends on this company sponsoring him and keeping him employed. Even if he did find work immediately it’s very hard to find someone who will also sponsor you. In any case he is in fear to take the chance because his family in India is owing money partly because of his education and they depend on him.
I for one will not tell Americans to take up Computer Engineering because the salaries have been driven way down in California and it is not worth the time and expense to train for anymore. I would caution against training for any engineering jobs since seeing the propaganda that CEOs with millions in stock holdings and the greedy are putting out.Please do not believe this unscientific propaganda that we do not have enough smart trained people in the United States to do the job. Instead look at the pay scale for engineers starting in the mid 1990s. You will see that adjusted for inflation the salary has gone definitely down in all fields. If we were growing short handed the salary would be definitely going up. "
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Ok, I would have to disagree with you, on the fact that I am A Sr. Systems Software Engineer for a very large company, and well i get paid the amount that you speak of, recently they laid off 4000 people were i work, out of an it dept of 267 people 125 of these people were of indian decent there are now 4 indian people that work here that know what they are doing, can commincate in English in a way you can actually understand and here them clearly without having to say huh what, o nevermind send it to me in an email, they laid of an additional 4 "americans" but cut entire, departments that were H1B Visas. I have personally worked with "offshore resouces" and i have been very disappointed, you pretty much get what you pay for. Slow work, book work, meaning they do not know what they are doing out side of flipping through a book, if it isnt in the book they have no idea what they are doing. I just got a raise, still work nice hours, and am happy with the choice to cut these people, i have not seen a decline in my pay in my departement or my feild. My suggestion, Leave CA! :-)
KJ,
I am glad that has been your experience, and commend your company. But that has not been the experience of many Americans.
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_research0ad1
We owned a business in the construction industry, and paid our help well. However, many companies (small and Large) hired illegal foreign labor paying them one half to one third of our employees.
It was more than the housing crices that destroyed the construction industry. Well before the mortgage crices struck, wages of workers was being driven down by GREED.
Hi Roma,
i was reviewing the link to the article that you sent and the PDF that was in the article and the article is from 2003. Can you locate something with a lil more up to date information, i was unable to find anything that was simalr to this article with more current findings and numbers.. I would like to know more about these findings and numbers
Here is a good web site that researches this subject regularly:
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/february-3-2009/investigation-reveals-banks-replaced-american-workers-with-foreign-workers.html
Another:
http://www.capsweb.org/content.php?id=567&menu_id=14
another;
http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?652622
I am pleased that Obama seems to be willing to use U.S. tax dollars to put Americans back to work. But, fraud is rampant in these Work Vist programs, and he needs to be alerted to any abuses.
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