• MEDIA: Tech Layoffs Mount as Microsoft, Amazon Shed Staff

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 23 14:21:18 2023
    VOA.GOV's Rob Garver on whether Donald Trump regrets dispatching
    Jared and Ivanka Kushner to Silicon Valley to sue for peace with
    the likes of Mark Zuckerberg: <URL:https://www.voanews.com/a/tech-layoffs-mount-as-microsoft-amazon-shed-staff/6924607.html>
    | Hochwarter said he thought companies would pull back on hiring H-1B
    | visa workers, at least for the time being.
    |
    | "My sense is that because that takes a great deal of effort and
    | energy on the part of the employing organization, they're probably
    | going to start cutting down on those because they're just not quite
    | as needed," he said.
    |
    | On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Labor Martin Walsh, speaking at
    | Davos, bemoaned the state of U.S. immigration law, saying it denies
    | the U.S. the workers it needs to drive economic growth.
    |
    | "We need immigration reform in America. America has always been a
    | country that has depended on immigration. The threat to the American
    | economy long term is not inflation, it's immigration," he said.
    | "It's not having enough workers."

    How many rounds of lotteries for scab worker import quotas will
    Ur M Jaddou run in 2023 to salvage Walsh's economy?
    Will Trump nominate Ken Cuccinelli and Eugene Scalia to succeed
    Jaddou and Walsh?
    Will Mitch McConnell consent?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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