FACT: The H-1b is harming thousands of U.S. workers
Hundreds of U.S. tech workers have detailed their personal experiences in the "H-1b Harm Report" at
www.HireAmericansFirst.org. Most of these workers are willing to speak with the media. For example:
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 H-1B. Spouse replaced by guest worker too.
General Electric Healthcare I am now retired from GE Healtcare, Milwaukee. I was forced into retirement at age 60, and eventually replaced by H-1B workers. Several American engineers have been replaced at GE by H-1B 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, foreign nations were being bused in to the vacated center.
The University of Chicago Laid off, lost valuable benefits while H-1b 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
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 H-1B worker and who I had trained and mentored at a previous employer.
Mastercard In 2001, lost contract as company moved away from Americans to H-1B contractors
McDonalds, Discover, and others The issue I am facing is L-1s now more than H-1b visas. L-1 are being used to bring a foreign workers over for training and then the company eliminates higher 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 H-1B positions of people working for companies whose H-1B positions were being renewed.
IBS US (El Dorado Hills, California) 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 - H-1Bs 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 Wipro & 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.
