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RockRaven

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3. Tesla is infamous for abusive working conditions, and H-1B enables worker abuse

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Mon Dec 30, 2024, 02:22 PM

Dec 30

by making it difficult/dangerous/impossible for a worker to change jobs -- much like how employer-based health care tethers people to bad jobs because they don't want to risk a ruinous/dangerous interruption in coverage by seeking a job with better pay or working conditions.

Musk wanting more H-1Bs isn't anti-American worker, it is anti-worker period.

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