Fair Tech Movement
America's Technology Workforce Deserves Answers
Investigating layoffs, employment-based visa practices, outsourcing, ghost jobs, and hiring systems that appear to be undermining opportunity for American STEM workers.
Millions of Americans invested years of education, experience, military service, certifications, and hard work preparing for careers in technology. Yet many now face layoffs, prolonged unemployment, disappearing entry-level opportunities, and hiring practices that are increasingly difficult to understand.
Fair Tech Movement exists to document what is happening, separate evidence from assumption, and determine whether employment visa programs, labor outsourcing, cost arbitrage, ghost jobs, and other workforce practices are contributing to the displacement, underemployment and layoffs of qualified American workers.
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“60 Minutes" examines H-1B visas outsourcing American jobs
American workers are losing jobs because of a law designed to help the job market. The H-1B visa lets companies recruit foreign talent for emerging engineering and scientific jobs, but the loopholes allow the outsourcing of American jobs to foreign workers, often at lower pay. "60 Minutes" correspondent Bill Whitaker joins "CBS This Morning" to preview his report airing Sunday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT on CBS.
Source: CBS and 60 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=envbbUc4LhU
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Preview: You’re Fired
60 Minutes investigates how some businesses have fired American workers and replaced them with cheaper labor: temporary, foreign workers with H-1B visas. Bill Whitaker reports on Sunday, Aug. 13 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Source: 60 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS8LNhxJq9Q
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H-1B VISA ABUSE: The Dark Truth of Tech (as an ex-Google software engineer)
Ex-Google / ex-Meta TechLead exposes the dark truth of H1B visa abuse.
Source: TechLead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwWWw6e9ko0
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H-1B Visa Debate: Are Foreign Workers Taking American Tech Jobs?
The U.S. faces a growing demand for skilled workers, particularly in STEM fields with a need for 1 million more STEM workers by 2033. The H-1B visa program, created in 1990, helps fill this gap by allowing businesses to temporarily hire foreign workers in specialized fields, with 85,000 visas available annually. Tech companies like Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are some of the largest users of the program eager to hire foreign workers. Supporters argue it boosts innovation and creates U.S. jobs, while detractors contend it takes jobs from American workers.
Source: CNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Ulsunza5A
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The Controversy Over H-1B Visas
Increasing the pool of US skilled labor or Off-shoring American Jobs? To The Contrary spoke with Americans whose jobs have been replaced by immigrant workers through the H-1B Visa program, and advocates who provided positions for immigrant workers coming to the U.S.
Source: To the Contrary on PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLwXT4mQn5s
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Meta gutted 21,000 jobs to import replacements
The Eli Crane H1B bill won't pass. The interesting part isn't the three-year pause or the $200K floor. It's the line that bans staffing agencies from sponsoring H1B workers. That single provision names the system every large tech company has been quietly running for a decade. Not talent acquisition. Body shop arbitrage.
I worked inside American Express. I watched how this works at the executive level. Microsoft just laid off a record number of experienced US workers and is hiring through the H1B program and offshore offices simultaneously. The American tech worker is fighting a three-front war right now: AI, imported labor, offshored labor. The system is designed so they can't win any of them.
Source: Dr. Josh C. Simmons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg897o_74Ko
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The H1B Visa Scam (It's Worse Than I Thought)
The H1B Visa Scam (It's Worse Than I Thought). With the Trump Administration taking on H1B visa applications, I did a deeper dive into it's impact on the job market, and it turns out the program needs a serious overhaul. Here's what I learned.
Source: A Life After Layoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpsD7tMxckg
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Durbin: We Must Reform the H-1B Visa Program
April 15, 2016. Today, Senator Durbin took to the U.S. Senate floor to speak out against the outsourcing of American jobs and call for reform to the H-1B visa program. To learn more about H-1B visa reform, sign up for Senator Durbin's weekly newsletter: durbin.senate.gov/contact/newsletter
Source: Senator Durbin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmnlXEhihNQ
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FULL EVENT: VP Vance Reveals Widespread H-1B Fraud in the United States - 10/08/26
VP Vance Reveals Widespread H-1B Fraud in the United States.
Source: Right Side Broadcasting Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCflHcGoCkY
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Our Mission
To investigate the condition of the American technology workforce, document worker experiences, analyze public labor and immigration data, expose misleading hiring practices, and give citizens practical tools to advocate for lawful and effective workforce reform.
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