Stop Offshoring
Monday, May 03, 2004
I saw this article in last weekend's San Jose Mercury News - "Jobs that stay here -- but not for Americans". It provides further evidence to debunk the argument that offshoring will result in more net jobs for Americans and supports my observations that foreign countries DO NOT hire American workers when they expand in the U.S.
Yet these jobs aren't available to the local workforce. They are reserved, almost exclusively, for guest workers brought from India on H-1B visas by the outsourcing contractors, according to analysts and industry sources.
"These jobs never make it to the help-wanted ads or get posted online,'' said Kim Berry, president of the Programmers Guild, a Web-based advocacy group that criticizes offshoring and the H-1B program.
"These companies are managing their offshore contracts using imported labor. But Americans should have the first shot at that work."
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