Tesla replaced laid off US workers with foreign workers using H-1B visas that Musk want to increase
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Tesla has replaced some of its US employees who were let go as part of a big wave of layoffs...

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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.

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  • Kit
    2·
    8 days ago

    Where in the post was Tesla mentioned? I’m talking specifically about the hypothetical situation outlined in the post.

    1. Person A is laid off from their job so that their company can exploit a foreign worker for lower pay.
    2. Foreign worker is deported.
    3. Company is now without a worker, whereas they wouldn’t be in this position if they weren’t using exploitative business practices.
    4. Person A feels that Company is getting their just desserts.

    Am I misreading something?

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
      10·
      8 days ago

      I’m not sure which alternate reality you’re reading this Lemmy post from, but in mine, I read an article about Tesla firing US employees to replace them with H-1B workers 🙂

      • Kit
        1·
        8 days ago

        I wasn’t referring to the article, I was referring to the specific reply that we’re chatting about

        • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
          9·
          8 days ago

          If you’re referring to my reply, then I guess you totally missed the sarcasm.

          And just in case you’ve been living under a very large rock, Donald Trump and his ultra-rich puppetmasters have flip-flopped on the H-1B issue, since they don’t need to lie to the American voters anymore, and they are now fully embracing fucking them over and replacing them with lower-wage indentured foreign workers.

          If you’re talking about something else, then you lost me…

          • Kit
            6·
            8 days ago

            Aha, the flip-flopping is exactly what I missed and why I was confused. Thanks for the explanation.

    • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org
      3·
      8 days ago

      Item 2 is your error, the foreign person would be here on a work visa so not an illegal immigrant. So person A is without a job while their company gets to pay someone less for doing the same work.

      • Kit
        2·
        8 days ago

        I think I misread “increase” as “decrease” because the conversion for the past few weeks has been on how Republicans want to get rid of H1B workers. Now they’ve totally 180’d?

        • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          Prez Musk did, so it’s slowly starting to spread down the incoming administration. The MAGA underlings still seem to think they have any say and are raging against it though