New Training Opportunity?
Here’s one I’ve never heard of before.
According to this article on Wired News, there’s a government program designed to “retrain” people to be competitive with H1B visa holders. The idea being to give US Citizens skills that make them competitive with imported skilled workers. Great idea, right? Yeah, only I’ve never heard of it before and now they’re trying to get rid of it!
The article is a little confusing, frankly, about who benefits from the program, H1B holders or people training to compete with them, but the end result seemed to be more US Citizens with viable skills and careers. Frankly, I’m in favor of any program that helps retrain American workers and keep them viable in the workforce. And, based on this quote:
“It would kill a program that mitigates the need for foreign workers by training U.S. citizens,” said Mike Wilson, chief executive of the Bay Area Technology Education Collaborative, which runs training programs in the greater San Francisco area. “That’s a hard one to swallow.”
It sounds like that’s just what this program is designed to do. Might be something to talk to your Congressman about, eh?
