| Title | The Obama Plan for Executive Action on Foreign Tech Workers | |
| Date | Tuesday November 25 2014, @12:45PM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the who-cares-about-the-unemployment-rate? dept. | ||
Norm Matloff, professor of Computer Science at UC-Davis, writes an insightful post on how Obama's latest executive actions on immigration might affect the American tech worker.
He writes:
There are obvious adverse impacts here to American workers, by swelling the labor market, thus reducing job opportunities and wages for Americans. This is especially true in that the foreign workers are overwhelmingly young, thus exacerbating the rampant age discrimination that we already have in the tech world.
The issue is touchy because while we don't want to discriminate unfairly against our fellow tech workers claiming a different nationality, there might be reason for being concern that continued influx of low-cost labor from overseas might provide (even more) negative pressure on the salaries and opportunities for the American tech worker. The spectre of ageism is certainly lurking in the shadows as well.
We've seen this kind of thing before of course, but now the issue seems to have gained added momentum.
What do you think? Is there cause for concern and if so, what strategies do we need to employ so we don't become irrelevant?
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