Save American JOBS! End the J-1 Visa Program
- al: American Workers
- destinatario: American Citizens
In the face of record unemployment not seen since the Great Depression, corporations are aggressively using the J-1 Visa to eliminate, replace and subdue American service industry jobs at the great pain and expense of American workers, and ultimately, the American people.
Once decent-paying, respectable jobs with benefits in the service industry in such places as ski resorts and multi-billion dollar theme parks are quickly being occupied by cheap, foreign student laborers instead of American workers.
Despite healthy attendance, large entertainment and recreation companies are rapidly eliminating full-time American jobs and replacing them with practically free foreign student labor with the J-1 Visa.
No benefits, no sick pay, no vacation pay; just full-time hours at minimum wage, these foreign workers will gladly take American jobs without hesitation. Thousands of American applications for employment are being IGNORED in favor of cheap, foreign student labor.
Strategies being employed:
1) Currency Exchange Rates: China, one of the largest participants in the J-1 Visa Program, has a currency exchange rate of 6.83 Yuan to each US dollar. This means a Chinese student worker will gladly toil long hours in a job once performed by an American worker at our minimum wage, which works out to approximately $49.50 an HOUR!!!
If, for example, this same student saves $5,000 US Dollars and exchanges this sum at their local bank in Shanghai, that small sum becomes a whopping $34,135!!!
No wonder thousands of Chinese and other countries' students line up around city blocks when American theme park and resort companies travel overseas for recruiting trips!
It's damn near impossible for American workers to compete against this type of "labor dumping."
2) "Poison Pill" Strategy: By short-circuiting the natural market forces of supply and demand, companies are using the J-1 Visa to suppress labor costs (wages and benefits) for American workers by flooding workplaces with this relatively cheap labor. Jobs that once paid decent wages and medical benefits to American workers are paying much less than before. This is apparent in 2nd and even 3rd Tier wage structures.
By making the job less attractive to local American workers, the strategy is to hope that fewer Americans will apply. Also, companies have been accelerating the turnover rates or "churn" to keep labor costs down, reducing pay and benefits, through J-1 Visa manipulation of the supply side of the labor equation.
3) Attrition: By hiring large numbers of foreign student workers instead of Americans, the few remaining American full-time workers are finding their backs pinned against the wall, with fewer and fewer options for survival.
More and more Americans are being stressed financially and psychologically more than ever before, just trying to eke out a living for themselves and their families. This tremendous and unjust burden is being transferred by overpaid CEO's and their executive cronies to average American families at great expense. Less workers employed means less tax revenue for schools and many social programs. Crime rates are increasing in many service sector communities due to working (or under-employed), absentee parents trying to hold down low-paying jobs to put food on the table.
It's time for American workers to call out the corporations that use and abuse the J-1 Visa Program at the expense of American jobs and workers.
It's time to call for an end to this cheap, foreign worker program that hurts average American workers.
Please sign this petition and get others to sign it. Demand action from your Senators and Congressmen to investigate the J-1 Visa and how it may be improperly used to eliminate, subdue and minimize American workers and their jobs.
Also, consider grass-root petitions in your local communities to bring this matter to the public's attention. Call in to radio talk shows and C-SPAN to bring it up, especially in states and communities where service workers make up a larger part of local economies.
Unemployment in America is currently at a 5:1 ratio; that's FIVE Americans out of work for every American employed.
Just as a rising tide lifts all boats, a receding tide will lower them.
More info:
http://www.numbersusa.org/
http://www.americanworker.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMKlMrwc6AA
http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/visa_j1.html
http://www.ln.edu.hk/ssc/career/featured/icp2009/index.htm
http://www.unitedworkprograms.com/workandtravel.html
firma la peticiónfirma la peticiónOnce decent-paying, respectable jobs with benefits in the service industry in such places as ski resorts and multi-billion dollar theme parks are quickly being occupied by cheap, foreign student laborers instead of American workers.
Despite healthy attendance, large entertainment and recreation companies are rapidly eliminating full-time American jobs and replacing them with practically free foreign student labor with the J-1 Visa.
No benefits, no sick pay, no vacation pay; just full-time hours at minimum wage, these foreign workers will gladly take American jobs without hesitation. Thousands of American applications for employment are being IGNORED in favor of cheap, foreign student labor.
Strategies being employed:
1) Currency Exchange Rates: China, one of the largest participants in the J-1 Visa Program, has a currency exchange rate of 6.83 Yuan to each US dollar. This means a Chinese student worker will gladly toil long hours in a job once performed by an American worker at our minimum wage, which works out to approximately $49.50 an HOUR!!!
If, for example, this same student saves $5,000 US Dollars and exchanges this sum at their local bank in Shanghai, that small sum becomes a whopping $34,135!!!
No wonder thousands of Chinese and other countries' students line up around city blocks when American theme park and resort companies travel overseas for recruiting trips!
It's damn near impossible for American workers to compete against this type of "labor dumping."
2) "Poison Pill" Strategy: By short-circuiting the natural market forces of supply and demand, companies are using the J-1 Visa to suppress labor costs (wages and benefits) for American workers by flooding workplaces with this relatively cheap labor. Jobs that once paid decent wages and medical benefits to American workers are paying much less than before. This is apparent in 2nd and even 3rd Tier wage structures.
By making the job less attractive to local American workers, the strategy is to hope that fewer Americans will apply. Also, companies have been accelerating the turnover rates or "churn" to keep labor costs down, reducing pay and benefits, through J-1 Visa manipulation of the supply side of the labor equation.
3) Attrition: By hiring large numbers of foreign student workers instead of Americans, the few remaining American full-time workers are finding their backs pinned against the wall, with fewer and fewer options for survival.
More and more Americans are being stressed financially and psychologically more than ever before, just trying to eke out a living for themselves and their families. This tremendous and unjust burden is being transferred by overpaid CEO's and their executive cronies to average American families at great expense. Less workers employed means less tax revenue for schools and many social programs. Crime rates are increasing in many service sector communities due to working (or under-employed), absentee parents trying to hold down low-paying jobs to put food on the table.
It's time for American workers to call out the corporations that use and abuse the J-1 Visa Program at the expense of American jobs and workers.
It's time to call for an end to this cheap, foreign worker program that hurts average American workers.
Please sign this petition and get others to sign it. Demand action from your Senators and Congressmen to investigate the J-1 Visa and how it may be improperly used to eliminate, subdue and minimize American workers and their jobs.
Also, consider grass-root petitions in your local communities to bring this matter to the public's attention. Call in to radio talk shows and C-SPAN to bring it up, especially in states and communities where service workers make up a larger part of local economies.
Unemployment in America is currently at a 5:1 ratio; that's FIVE Americans out of work for every American employed.
Just as a rising tide lifts all boats, a receding tide will lower them.
More info:
http://www.numbersusa.org/
http://www.americanworker.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMKlMrwc6AA
http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/visa_j1.html
http://www.ln.edu.hk/ssc/career/featured/icp2009/index.htm
http://www.unitedworkprograms.com/workandtravel.html
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