One lawmaker called to end the H-1B foreign worker visa program entirely to prioritize hiring American workers
A popular U.S.-based gaming brand owned by Microsoft is facing fury after mass employee layoffs occurred in the wake of the company being approved for thousands of foreign worker visas.
Microsoft announced that it will lay off 4,800 people total and 1,600 from the corporation’s XBOX division, which makes and sells the dominant video game console.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has been approved this year to hire from foreign countries 2,273 employer-sponsored, non-immigrant workers under what is known as the H-1B visa program, according to data from U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Furious online critics claim that American jobs are being unfairly handed to foreigners in an effort to cut labor costs but at the cost of leaving U.S. workers in the lurch.
Corporate greed is destroying our country. That is why we need Unions. There is strength in numbers. The Microsoft workers that didn’t get fired need to call out sick and stay sick until those 1600 employees are rehired. This strategy will work. Unions have the ability to organize workers into one.
Unions are not good!!
What do you base your reply on 12:23 ?
Are you not a team player 12:23 ? Is it all me me me ? Who doesn’t want a liveable wage on a forty hour work week, health insurance, a retirement pension, an annuity plan, etc? Lots of college graduates can’t even get a decent paying job. I bet you are elderly and already have yours, so the Hell with everybody else.
C’mon 12:23, what is your reasons for saying Unions are not good?