High-Tech Firms Want Low-Wage—Not U.S. Workers
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Before a company, say Oracle, would be allowed to recruit and hire foreign workers under the H1B visa program in the draft of the immigration bill now under consideration in the Senate, it first must give U.S. workers who are equally or better qualified the first shot at the jobs. That sounds like a patriotic no-brainer.
But recent news reports outline a huge lobbying effort by high-tech firms—like Google and Microsoft—to get those pro-U.S. worker provisions out of the bill. Silicon Valley tycoons—including Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg—are pushing amendments from Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to the bill that could open the door for companies to fire U.S. workers and replace them with lower-paid foreign workers.
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