Tesla replaced laid off US workers with foreign workers using H-1B visas that Musk want to increase

[douglas9]

Tesla has replaced some of its US employees who were let go as part of a big wave of layoffs earlier this year with foreign workers using H-1B visas, which CEO Elon Musk is now campaigning to increase.

Over the last week, Elon Musk has been promoting the increase of H-1B visas, which are used to bring foreign workers into the US for “specialty occupations.”

Qualified foreign workers need to be sponsored by a company to get the visa, which lasts three years, extendable to six years, after which the holder needs to reapply.

The visa holder must maintain employment at the visa sponsor to retain the work visa. The worker would have to leave the country if the employment ends for whatever reason. This has led to some criticism as it gives tremendous power to the employer and can lead to a modern version of indentured servitude.

https://electrek.co/2024/12/30/tesla-replaced-laid-off-us-workers-with-foreign-workers-using-h-1b-visas-that-musk-want-to-increase/

[keithbvadu2]

1. And Donald supports this H-1B. Importing foreign workers to take American jobs.

[Skittles]

7. Trump is supporting his rich buddies

he needed the idiotic MAGAt base to get him back in though.

[Walleye]

2. Indentured servitude were the exact words that went through my mind when I read that

[RockRaven]

3. Tesla is infamous for abusive working conditions, and H-1B enables worker abuse

by making it difficult/dangerous/impossible for a worker to change jobs -- much like how employer-based health care tethers people to bad jobs because they don't want to risk a ruinous/dangerous interruption in coverage by seeking a job with better pay or working conditions.

Musk wanting more H-1Bs isn't anti-American worker, it is anti-worker period.

[unblock]

4. Perfect example of how immigration is driven by American employers, not foreign "invaders"

Trying to curtail immigration without talking about cracking down on employers and reducing or reversing their incentives is basically whining about a problem without talking about its cause.

H1-b holders were, by definition, recruited into employment here. I'm guessing that the vast majority of undocumented immigrants who crossed the border illegally also were recruited, directly or indirectly. I don't imagine a ton of people sneaking in without a job lined up, if only a friend saying come work here, I think my boss will give you a job.

It's only visa overstayers who may not have jobs lined up, though even then, they likely would leave if they can't find a job from an employer who doesn't mind (or even prefers) that they're not here legally.

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[magicarpet]

6. Using a visa program to help the employer.

But exploiting the program and the workers to squeeze out higher profits, lower wages, and lower employee turnover at sub-standard, hostile, and often dangerous work sites.