MNHeadhunter has an unbelievable video - as in - you won't believe it when you see it.
A Pennsylvania law firm, Cohen and Grigsby, gave a presentation in a marketing seminar where they taught US companies how to disqualify US workers from jobs so they could hire H1-B workers for cheaper rates.
You heard that right. First - watch the video, which came from Slashdot.
Next, take a good look at the number of H1-B workers in your local companies here in St Louis.
Ask yourself if your company could be so low, so disloyal, that they woud voluntarily disqualify talented US workers to get a cheaper rate.
Cohen and Grigsby can't be the only ambulance-chasers pulling this on the American worker. If you have any information on this going on in St Louis, send a confidential e-mail via that link on the right hand side.
And if you're an immigration lawyer, feel free to send me a note defending the practice - if you can.
Despicable. I say we deport the Cohen and Grisby lawyers.
And one last thing. If we're going to make it a practice to bring back indentured servitude, can we drop the high and mighty rhetoric about immigration being good for the country? The people who are the worst treated in this situation are the H1-B workers themselves, who are paid less than they are worth on the open market, locked into their jobs without hope of moving for fear of losing their employment status, and also put in a position where they are intensely disliked by American workers because the companies are using them to squeeze down wages.
There is supposed to be a law that H1-B workers are paid the market rate, which means no cutting wages. I wonder if the attorneys at Cohen and Grisby can be caught cheating on that requirement.
