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🚨BREAKING: oracle fired 30,000 people by 6am email.. and in the same breath filed 3,126 H-1B visa petitions..
let me explain what's actually happening here..
an H-1B worker's visa is tied to their employer.. if oracle cuts them loose they have 60 days to find a new sponsor or leave the country.. they can't easily organise.. can't threaten to quit.. the visa is the leash..
oracle didn't just replace expensive workers with cheaper ones..
they replaced workers who could leave.. with workers who legally can't..
this isn't new.. disney did it in 2015.. made 250 american IT workers train their own H-1B replacements before severance cleared.. workers sued.. federal judge threw it out in 2016.. congress said nothing.. every corporate legal team in america saved that ruling to a folder..
oracle just opened the folder..
the H-1B visa was created in 1990 to fill genuine skill gaps america couldn't staff fast enough.. thirty-five years later it's the most elegant labour control mechanism ever written into law..
cheap workers AND workers who can't quit.. in one government form..
they told you AI was taking your job..
they meant it was giving them a better excuse.
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BREAKING: Oracle, the software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, has filed thousands of petitions for H-1B visas in the past two fiscal years, even as it lays off thousands of American workers as part of a broader organizational shift, per NationalToday
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