Statements of U.S. workers harmed by the H-1b Program
Source:
www.HireAmericansFirst.org
Exult
My husband lost his computer programming job when his company imported cheaper
programmers from India.
Lucent Technologies
I was displaced from my contract position in August 2001 while the H-1B guest
workers were retained.
PG&E (San Francisco)
My company was actively hiring Indian contractors through Tata and Infosys at
the time I was let go.
Cognizant
The company is phasing out American consultants, and later this year, American
employees of that company.
MMO and SnapOn
Replaced by H1b. Spouse was replaced by guest worker on a visa.
General Electric Healthcare
I am now retired from GE Healthcare, Milwaukee. I was forced into retirement at
age 60, and eventually replaced by H1B workers. Several American engineers have
been replaced at GE by H1B and green card workers.
AT&T/TATA
In October 2001 our office was notified that come Jan 1, 2002 the office would
be closed. Within days of the closing of our office, foreign nations were being
bused in to the vacated center.
The University of Chicago
Laid off, lost valuable benefits while H1-b workers retained. Not interviewed
for 81 positions while at same time U.S. Labor Dept. of Labor approved 208
foreign nationals to work at same employer doing jobs
Lincoln Financial
Applied for an Actuate Developer job at company and was turned down. However,
they did hire a colleague of mine for the same position who was an H1B worker and
who I had trained and mentored at a previous employer.
Mastercard
In 2001, lost contract as company moved away from Americans to H1B contractors
McDonalds, Discover, and others
The issue I am facing is L-1s now more than H1-b visas. L-1 were originally
intended to bring existing employees across boarders. They are now being used to
bring a foreign workers over for a short period for training and then the
company can start to eliminate hire cost employees and consultants.
Phillips Semiconductor
In 1998 I was replaced by an H-1b from India while working at Phillips
Semiconductor in Mountain View California.
Cognizant Technologies
Indian Consulting firms set up phony interviews with the objective of gaining
salary information
PERM FAKE ADS
I applied for many positions listed in ads only to find out that the position
listed were mostly ads to justify H1-B positions of people working for companies
whose H1-B positions were being renewed.
IBS US
H-1B workers never complained about working weekends without pay, as they were
faced with losing their Visa if they lost their job. Laid off in 2001 while H-1B
holders were retained
IBM
After 30 years as an IT professional, I cannot get so much as an interview.
Anthem Blue Cross California
As a programmer at Anthem Blue Cross, I was among many who were coerced into
taking early retirement in lieu of losing our retirement benefits. This made
room for more H-1b visa programmers from India.
Fiserv
Company laid off all American programmers and kept foreigners H1-Bs and other
visa holders
WiPro & InfoSys
I just finished my M.S. Degree in Computer Science. I continue to see U.S.
Citizen's jobs outsourced or offshored or both to INDIA and china. My current
company employs Wi-Pro & InfoSys. They are laying off U.S. workers and hiring
"contractors" from these two companies to do their job in the U.S. (under visa
program) or in India.
Symantec Corporation
My current company's IT is saturated with foreign workers. All are picked over
American workers as most if not all the hiring managers and the upper management
are foreign workers themselves and it has nothing to do with their skill set
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