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American Jobs & Guest Workers

American Jobs & Guest Workers. By: Dave DiDenti Robert Huezo Tory Smith. ATTENTION. 4.7 million workers have been out of work for at least 27 weeks (Plumer, 2013 ). High-tech giants are asking congress to increase H-1B visas from 65,000 to 300,000 for guest workers (Plumer, 2013).

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American Jobs & Guest Workers

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  1. American Jobs & Guest Workers By: Dave DiDenti Robert Huezo Tory Smith

  2. ATTENTION • 4.7 million workers have been out of work for at least 27 weeks (Plumer, 2013). • High-tech giants are asking congress to increase H-1B visas from 65,000 to 300,000 for guest workers (Plumer, 2013). • Guest workers are defined as foreign laborer working temporarily in an country. (Merriam Webster On-line Dictionary, 2013).

  3. SPEAKER CREDIBILITY • Robert and Tory are college students who have majors that will be affected by the stem program and may not get jobs in their field’s right out of college. • Dave is a person who has been unemployed from a STEM position in the high-tech industry for over four years and is unlikely to return thanks, in part, to job-outsourcing and the influx of guest workers.

  4. THESIS • We want to cap or reduce H-1B visas by identifying logical reasoning that supports our proposals, pinpoint solutions supporting our proposals, and demonstrate how capping or reducing guest workers will improve future job security for American graduates and STEM workers.

  5. American job loss • About one-third of Microsoft’s 46,000 employees in the United States have work visas or are legal permanent residents with green cards (AP, 2007b). • The current 65,000 visa cap does not apply to petitions made on behalf of current H-1B holders (AP, 2007c). • There are 425,000 visa holders as of May, 2000 (Donnelly, 2000). • In 2009, two-thirds of computer science graduates worked in their field (Von Bergen, 2012).

  6. Fraud/Abuse/Misuse • Half of H-1B visas for 2002 went to companies like Infosys and Wipro that produce boilerplate coding, user support and network maintenance (Harnett, 2013a). • An Indian American company based in Texas has been indicted by federal authorities on charges of fraud in the H-1B visa category and using it to create a low-cost workforce in the United States (Indiawest.com, 2013).

  7. Money/Wages • H-1B visas to replace older, US programmers with younger, less expensive foreigners (Harnett, 2013b). • Various work visas are bringing in so many STEM workers from other countries who are willing to work for lower wages that U.S. STEM graduates either can’t command the pay they expected or can’t find jobs in their fields (Von Bergen, 2013).

  8. Money/Wages (cont.) • STEM workers command higher wages, earning 26 percent more than their non-STEM counterparts (Fraser, 2012). • Ron Hira, a public policy professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, has said that claims of an imminent talent crunch are trumped up by tech companies looking for cheap, controllable labor. (McDougall, 2012).

  9. Solutions for the shortage • Adopt formal training and mentoring programs for current workers to take on more complex tasks. • Use a rotational job system so employees learn more than one skill set. • Explore partnering with local colleges and technical schools to groom future employees. • Provide more training (Wright, 2012).

  10. VISUALIZATION • How great would it be that upon graduating from college you have a job waiting for you at a pay commensurate with your education and skills. Graduates entering the job market earning their worth will bring more dollars to the economy through taxes and reduce the possibility of becoming part of a governmental subsidy should they not find work thereby not draining the economy of needed tax dollars.

  11. Conclusion • In the beginning of our presentation, we discussed capping or limiting H-1B visas by identifying logical reasoning for our proposals, pinpointing solutions supporting our proposals, and demonstrating how capping or reducing guest workers will improve future job security for American graduates and STEM workers.

  12. ACTION • Too many in our population live by the ostrich in the sand lifestyle- get involved. • Write letters to your representatives. • Sign petitions to cap or reduce H-1B visa laws. • Always remember to vote. Ostrich Head in the Sand

  13. References • Photobucket (n.d.).ostrich-burying-head.jpg. Retrieved May 12, 2013, from http://photobucket.com/images/ ostrich%20head%20in%20sand/

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