This practice is endemic and has been going on for years. It is another labor atrocity that was unleashed starting with Reagan.
When I was at DOL we would have "immigration clearance" orders that were H1B orders. They had to be on the national Employment Service Job Bank System for 30 days then. All the employer would do was make the requirements the same as the foreign national they wanted to hire. Like must speak, read and write Mandarin Chinese. It was bad then. I have been retired 14 years and as far as I am concerned it is worse than ever now. And the GOP wants unlimited H1B work visas.
The shortage of American workers is a complete lie and a myth. American business just won't train an American worker now.
With clearance orders they were written so that NO American worker could possible qualify. And if one did the employer would find a way to DQ them. And we had a lot of them through the years. We had a specialist who adminstered that order system. It was very political.
I have said for 20 years that American business does not want American workers. They cost too much. That is why the US Chamber, big business, conservatives and the GOP are trying to criminalize labor unions and abolish labor laws and minimum wage. And I know from my 24 years at DOL that that is what they are determined to do. And they do want to criminalize collective bargaining.
And the American business community really is pushing for WAGE PARITY with the global economy. You will never hear a politician in the US discuss it. The words "globalized economy" and "competing" IS CODE FOR EQUALIZING AMERICAN PAY WITH THE THIRD WORLD.
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