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Economy
Big Tech Joins Chamber of Commerce Lawsuit to Import Foreign Workers While 26M Americans Jobless
2020-08-15
[Breitbart] Giant tech corporations have joined a Chamber of Commerce lawsuit that seeks to overturn President Trump’s executive order halting visa programs to prioritize unemployed Americans for scarcely available jobs.

Last month, the Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit against Trump’s expanded executive order, signed in June, that halts the H-1B, H-4, H-2B, L-1, and J-1 visa programs to reduce foreign competition against millions of unemployed Americans.

Today, there are 26 million Americans who are jobless — 7.7 million of whom are out of the workforce altogether and about two million who have been out of work for months but want full-time employment. Another 8.4 million Americans are working part-time but want full-time jobs.

Now, CEOs for the largest tech corporations in the world have signed onto the lawsuit in an amicus brief. Tech corporations such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Netflix, Zillow, and PayPal have all signed on to fight Trump’s order.

The full list of those supporting the Chamber of Commerce lawsuit include:

1. Adobe Inc.

2. Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers

3. Amazon.com, Inc.

4. Apple Inc.

5. Atlassian, Inc.

6. Autodesk, Inc.

7. Bates White, LLC

8. Box, Inc.

9. BSA Business Software Alliance, Inc.

10. Consumer Technology Association

11. Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

12. Dropbox, Inc.

13. Facebook, Inc.

14. FWD.us Education Fund

15. GitHub, Inc.

16. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

17. HP Inc.

18. HR Policy Association

19. Information Technology Industry Council

20. Institute of International Bankers

21. Intel Corp.

22. Internet Association

23. Juniper Networks, Inc.

24. LinkedIn Corporation

25. Metro Atlanta Chamber

26. Microsoft Corporation

27. Netflix, Inc.

28. New Imagitas, Inc.

29. North Texas Commission

30. Partnership for a New American Economy Research Fund

31. PayPal, Inc.

32. Plaid Inc.

33. Postmates Inc.

34. Reddit, Inc.

35. salesforce.com, inc.

36. SAP SE

37. Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)

38. ServiceNow, Inc.

39. Shutterstock, Inc.

40. Silicon Valley Bank

41. Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

42. Splunk Inc.

43. Square, Inc.

44. SurveyMonkey Inc.

45. Twitter, Inc.

46. Uber Technologies, Inc.

47. Upwork Inc.

48. Vail Valley Partnership

49. VMware, Inc.

50. Workday, Inc.

51. Xylem Inc.

52. Zillow Group, Inc.

The corporate lobbying effort to reopen pipelines of foreign workers to take U.S. jobs comes as companies are cutting Information Technology (IT) jobs, about 134,000 in July, due to economic shutdowns spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
Posted by:Besoeker

#14  Linus Torvalds was nearly blocked by INS because they didn't think he contributed any needed skills. But the thousands of H1-Bs who completed a "certification" course and know nearly nothing outside of it are welcomed in.

Look at the multiple HR-related groups listed -- the practices at HR are part of the problem. A checklist of claimed skills, no, we don't want to train anyone, just let us post jobs asking for 6 years experience in a 3-year-old platform...
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-08-15 17:54  

#13  I'm in favor of everyone who comes on an equal footing. Anything else, I'm against.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-08-15 16:27  

#12  Every migrant on less than average wage for that area harms the economy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-08-15 16:23  

#11  And Harris is Big Tech's best friend.
Which goes a ways toward explaining how she got the nod.
Posted by: Matt   2020-08-15 13:56  

#10  How can you convince American kids to major in computer science when all these companies prefer the cheaper imports from India?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-08-15 13:31  

#9  #3 The main thing is that they hate actual Americans.

Just look at the CEOs and other execs at many of these firms.

Poor ed. is a pretext at most; never mind that Big Tech overwhelmingly supports the people responsible for that ed.
Posted by: charger   2020-08-15 13:23  

#8  Big Tech don't trust American education system?

You think the Indian education system is better? I've spent enough time around these people to believe that it is most certainly not. This is not about education. It's about the importation and exploitation of cheap labor. As far as I'm concerned, every last one of these companies can get the hell out of America and set up shop in the third world hell hole of their choice.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-08-15 13:23  

#7  So.

Slavery is bad.

Your tech "solution" isn't profitable without imported, essentially slaver labor.

All good.

When will Gupta start asking for reparations too?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-08-15 10:37  

#6   Splunk Inc.

Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) is a security information and event management (SIEM) solution that provides insight into machine data generated from security technologies such as network, endpoint, access, malware, vulnerability and identity information.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-08-15 09:04  

#5  @ #3 - Education system might be o.k., just finding Americans to switch majors from Urban Studies to Computer Science or Electrical Engineering might be the problem.
Posted by: Clem   2020-08-15 08:38  

#4  The imported labor is a captive group. No labor bargaining power, no job mobility. That's the attraction.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-08-15 07:08  

#3  Big Tech don't trust American education system?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2020-08-15 04:30  

#2  "It's Not Personal....."
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-08-15 04:16  

#1  No problem. Offer them all the tech visas they want at $300,000/year.
Posted by: Groluse B. Hayes4837   2020-08-15 03:16  

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