Killer Rabbit 90Sep 25
Amazon blamed AI for layoffs, then hired cheap H1-B workers, senators allege https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/amazon-blamed-ai-for-layoffs-then-hired-cheap-h1-b-workers-senators-allege/ #uspoli #JeffBezos #Oligarchy #AI #H1B #WorkersWages #CheapLabour #unemployment
Amazon blamed AI for layoffs, then hired cheap H1-B workers, senators allege

Tech firms pressed to explain if H-1B workers are paid less than US workers.

Ars Technica
Show threadC.Dec 30, 2024

@tknarr @lauren

To me, the whole "H1-B is for when you simply cannot find a qualified citizen/green-card candidate" problem could be solved with what seems to me to be a missing requirement.

If you "can't find" a matching candidate, clearly you've already tried recruiting with generous compensation etc. So if you're forced to go outside the national labour pool, it should obviously be that anyone you hire on an H1-B is right at the top of your compensation, right?

i.e. hire an H1-B engineer, they had better be the highest-paid (or tied for highest) engineer in the company.

If you enforce that, the cheap-labour abuse just goes away...

But of course, every complex problem has a simple, easy to understand wrong answer, so maybe I'm missing something.

#scam #abuse #visa #employer #labour #labor #CheapLabour #CheapLabor #cheap #H1B

Peter RileyDec 19, 2023

TheCathyWilcox
@cathywilcox
@smh @theage cartoon.

#Gaza #Ceasefire #COP28 #immigration #cheaplabour #privateschools

Mojo ♻️Nov 7, 2023

Domestic employee of former Indian high commissioner forced to work every day for 17.5 hours and paid just $9 per day #slavery #australia #cheaplabour #exploitation

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-05/former-indian-high-commissioner-compensate-domestic-employee/103066848

Domestic employee of former Indian high commissioner forced to work every day for 17.5 hours and paid just $9 per day

The Federal Court heard Seema Sherghill's duties included cleaning Mavdeep Suri Singh's eight-bedroom home, preparing meals and gardening. She was only allowed to leave the house when she walked the dog.

ABC News
Terri Blue 🇨🇦😷Sep 6, 2023
Got an email about how universities are tackling food insecurity. I naively thought they were starting new food programs/initiatives for grad and undergraduate students, but that was not the case. They're just trying to develop lab grown meat. #FoodInsecurity #CheapLabour #academia
AutisticMumTo3Jul 5, 2023

Care crisis: Why migrant labour and AI won’t solve our problems | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/emily-kenway-care-crisis-failing-bots-migrant-labour-work/

#CareCrisis
#CheapLabour
#AI
#Carers
#Disability
#UnpaidCarers
#Migrants
#MigrantWorkers

EMILY KENWAY: Cheap labour and AI won’t fix our care crisis

People are living longer, with more care needs. We must rebalance our relationship to work, the planet and each other

openDemocracy
Show threadTerri Blue 🇨🇦😷Jun 3, 2023
"Postdoctoral researchers earn an average of $47,500 a year — a little more than half of the average annual salary for university graduates. Moreover, postdocs face constant upheaval, because they typically have to move to a new role every few years. Some researchers spend a decade or longer jumping from one short-term contract to the next."
#JobInsecurity #ContractWork #CheapLabour #academia #government
AutisticMumTo3Mar 1, 2023

The U.S. Is Choosing Child Labor Over More Immigration
#ChildLabor
#ChildLabour
#Immigrants
#CheapLabour
#CheapLabor

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/labor-shortages-child-labor-migrants.html

Walter MentethDec 9, 2022

With oligarch funding (& corporate capture) and having emerged as advocates of cheap #Labour they've moved so far right they deserve their new brand name 'The #CheapLabour' Party should be trending.
In all honesty I can't understand how any #TradeUnion remains affiliated.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/08/labour-refusing-to-promise-repeal-of-tory-anti-strike-laws?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Labour refuses to promise repeal of planned Tory anti-strike laws

Keir Starmer calls proposed legislation ‘wrong’, but does not commit to scrapping it if it becomes law

The Guardian
MarverdeNov 22, 2022

"No return to #FOM"?
Is that #UKLabour's DREAM offer?

Will I have to vote Labour, yet again, without sharing its vision, just because it's my only option to get the bloody #Tories OUT?

I want an end to #cheaplabour. And I want everybody to stop thinking of the EU as a source of that.

I want to #RejoinEU BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE BELONG.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/22/keir-starmer-vows-to-wean-business-off-cheap-labour

Keir Starmer vows to wean business off ‘cheap labour’

Labour leader to tell CBI conference that UK’s low-pay economy and reliance on immigration must end

The Guardian