H1B Bills purport to help solve the Technology gap in US industry, but really all they do is hold down wages of Information Technology professionals.
Originally, they told us the H1B bills would allow companies to resolve the shortage of Information Technology professionals in the U.S. work force by importing professionals from overseas.
Prior to the first H1B, as an I.T. Professional you could expect a decent yearly raise to keep pace with industry salaries but since the advent of the H1B legislation industries salaries have been flat, ans so has the yearly raises. What they have done is driven thousands of former I.T. professionals to other fields, and discouraged new U.S. students from going into the Computer field.
After all, what future is there in a field with stagnate salary growth, and competition with thousands of foreign workers willing to take less than the going rate for the job your competing for.
Lately, there has been an up tick in I.T. salaries thus business again sees a need to increase the number of foreign workers to compete for the jobs.
I hate to say it but it looks to me like the MBA's want to make sure that they continue to make more than the geeks in the I.T. department.
eWeek has and interesting news article on the subject take a look here.
InfoWorld is none to happy either take a look here.
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