{"id":200042,"date":"2007-06-07T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/07\/tech-companies-want-their-slave-labor\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T16:44:00","slug":"tech-companies-want-their-slave-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/07\/tech-companies-want-their-slave-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Companies Want Their Slave Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What this is about is workers being free to tell them to &#8220;take this job and shove it&#8221;, and not leave the US.<\/p>\n<p>Any visa in which losing your job with a specific employer requires you to leave is a step above slavery.<\/p>\n<p>H1b, L1, and the proposed guest worker program are an attempt to create an underclass of cheap labor.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Tech+seeing+red+over+green-card+proposal\/2100-1028-6188899.html?part=dht&amp;tag=nl.e433\">Tech seeing red over green-card proposal<\/a><\/span><br \/>By Anne Broache<br \/>Staff Writer, CNET News.com<br \/>Published: June 6, 2007, 4:00 AM PDT<\/p>\n<p>Silicon Valley companies would be forced to compete with fast food joints, shops at the mall and truck-driving outfits for the same pool of legalized foreign hires under a controversial proposal that the U.S. Senate is debating this week.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of unpredictable competition for a fixed number of immigrant visas based on an applicant&#8217;s educational background and work history, which would replace the current employer-sponsored green card system, is drawing stiff opposition from technology lobbying groups that are pressing senators to preserve the current system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What this is about is workers being free to tell them to &#8220;take this job and shove it&#8221;, and not leave the US. Any visa in which losing your job with a specific employer requires you to leave is a step above slavery. H1b, L1, and the proposed guest worker program are an attempt to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1053],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}