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Bernie Sanders accuses Musk of seeking cheaper immigrant labor with H-1B visas
(www.independent.co.uk)
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the low wage immigrants that earn significantly higher than even the median American wage, and where it is literally required to pay above the "prevailing wage" for workers doing similar jobs...
and lying about who's able to get an H-1B with "dog-trainers, massage therapists, cooks, and English teachers"
H-1B has obvious flaws (like the difficulty in switching jobs and lack of pathway towards permanent residence) but his main criticisms of them in his statement show ignorance at best, other than the obvious one being that the megacorps do use them to get exploitable workers and there should be better protections for workers.
And who is doing even moderate enforcement of this? I've been in IT for decades; it is wildly abused.
Tesla's H1-B employees are public knowledge - he's paying H1-B senior engineers 70k a year, which is a pittance compared to market rates. He's also hiring entry level engineers and claiming they're "highly paid specialists he couldn't hire domestically", which is hilarious given the number of layoffs in tech recently - the candidates are clearly there.
Tesla and SpaceX are famous for being low paid sweatshops in the engineering world, and H1-B labor is helping lower those wages and QoL for workers. Fuck Musky.
Then there are the people that were basically trapped at Xitter after that asshole bought it...lots of people left if they could, because, well, duh, almost anyone would; the H-1Bs, famously, were stuck.
Yeeep. My boss was an engineering exec at Twitter for 8 years, he quit when Musky was an asshole to him in a meeting. Pretty unreal some of the stories he had.
Re: H-1B, the data is all available for everyone seeing this: https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub
Go make yourselves sad.