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Did the Justice Department Punish Microsoft for Prioritizing American Workers?

Preston Huennekens — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:37:02 +0000

Microsoft settled with the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding claims that the company discriminated against non-citizens during its hiring practices. The Justice Department claimed that Microsoft “discriminated against non-U.S. citizens based on their citizenship status during the early stages of Microsoft’s hiring process by asking them for unnecessary, specific immigration documents to prove they could [...]

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Google Doodles While U.S. Workers Suffer

Bob Dane — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:10:22 +0000

Sir William Arthur Lewis was honored on Google’s Dec. 10 webpage. Given the Nobel Prize-winning British economist’s position on immigration and wages, that day’s “Google Doodle” was a richly ironic icon. In his 1954 treatise, “Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour,” Lewis wrote, “If there were free immigration from India and China to the U.S.A., [...]

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Big Tech’s Immigration Mouthpiece Endorses Amnesty for Current Illegal Aliens and Exploitation of the Next Wave

Ira Mehlman — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:34:18 +0000

FWD.us, the tech industry’s mass immigration advocacy mouthpiece, has declared with the certainty of scientific fact that our “Economic recovery from COVID depends on a citizenship pathway for 11 million undocumented immigrants.” Of course, the declaration is anything but scientific. Rather, it is a naked attempt to use whatever circumstance is at hand to promote [...]

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TVA Jolts Tech Workers With Foreign Outsourcing

Bob Dane — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:28:35 +0000

In another blow to U.S. workers, the country’s largest government-owned power provider is outsourcing 20 percent of its technology jobs to foreign companies. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) notified 120 employees they will lose their jobs this summer. An additional 100 positions are said to be on the chopping block. Capgemini, CGI and Accenture — [...]

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Are Tech Companies Giving American Minorities the Short End of the Stick?

Matthew Tragesser — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:50:04 +0000

Top universities are graduating black and Hispanic computer science and engineering students at twice the rate that technology companies are hiring them, a new USA Today analysis finds. The analysis reveals that “on average, just 2 percent of technology workers at seven Silicon Valley companies that have released staffing numbers are black; 3 percent are [...]

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Time to End Foreign Student Preference Programs

Jennifer G. Hickey — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:18:02 +0000

The nearly 4 million college students who receive their diplomas next month will head directly into the worst job market since the 2008-2009 recession. Things are no brighter for graduates with job prospects since more than 20 percent of companies are now considering pulling employment offers. Given the economic landscape, now is the perfect moment [...]

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