Essay about America’s High Tech Sweatshops

Many of these companies have horrible outcomes for the foreign workers who are trying to come to America for a better future.

The first negative outcome is the foreign worker gets to the U. S. and realizes, after paying enormous fees for a temporary work visa that they never really got a visa because the visa is held by the employer, not the employee. This can lead to being kicked out of the country by the government. The second negative outcome is the worker gets to America and finds that the company has no open Job for them. This is against the law because a company must have a Job open for the foreigner before applying for the visa for them.

The third negative outcome is an employee has a Job but money is taken out of their paycheck for the huge visa fee. Also, if they have a Job they may not be paid in between Jobs at different Job sites. Both of these actions are illegal for the companies to practice (Hamm, and Herbst). Rarely do the foreign workers get what they signed up for from the advertisement they first encounter. Why have these tech companies survived? Reasons for their survival included the downturn of the U. S. economy. Larger companies look for ways to cut costs wherever is possible.

These larger companies have realized it is more cost effective to give some high-tech work to smaller high-tech companies all over the U. S. through outsourcing. They tend to outsource management of tech systems and other operations to these smaller outfits. Large companies have discovered it is also more ost effective to have

a smaller workforce at each satellite worksite and outsource projects to small high-tech companies. The small companies are mostly made of foreign workers in American on the H-1 B visas and the companies have become known as "body shops" (Hamm, and Herbst). mploying the small high-tech companies do not even know about the injustice that is happening. Even if the large company has even an inkling that it may be occurring, they usually do not try to find out. Many American companies have been found to outsource to these small tech firms and later discover they have been tangled in a eb of visa violation with the government. There are many layers in between the large and small company; and it is never clear who is working for the outsourced company and their situation.

Law enforcement has been known to miss these small companies doing illegal activity because they are so small. There is not enough man power to research and catch all the small tech companies in the act of visa violation (Hamm, and Herbst). The government needs to be more aware of this problem and make a greater effort to investigate any tip about an illegal operation. Many U. S. tech workers have an issue with the outsourcing of foreign workers. They believe this action lowers their income and creates a clear passageway for taking Jobs to different countries.

In the end, many U. S. tech workers have lost their jobs because of this situation. On the other side, the tech service companies feel they are being over scrutinized for U. S. Job loss and contend that they are only trying to appease

their client's wants and desires (Hamm, and Herbst). It is unfair that U. S. workers lose their Jobs and honest foreign workers never get a chance to work. Overall, the U. S. tech workers and the foreign workers coming to America under alse pretenses both lose in the end. This situation is unjust and must be squelched immediately.