IT jobs raise anger in war of skilled workers visas

THOUSANDS of "jobs of the future" in information technology are being denied to Australian youth by employers importing foreign workers, Prime Minister Julia Gillard will tell an ACTU conference today. 

 
Stepping up her war on abuses of the controversial 457 visa for skilled foreign workers, Ms Gillard says it is unacceptable that jobs in IT, retail, accommodation and food services are being taken by foreigners.

"The number of people coming here to fill short-term gaps should not be growing at 20 times faster than employment overall."

Ms Gillard will today outline what she says is "clear evidence" that in some sectors, importing workers has been a substitute for spreading opportunities to Australians.

"It is just not acceptable that information technology jobs ... should be such a big area of imported skills," says the PM's speech notes, obtained by the Herald Sun.

Ms Gillard says 5800 temporary workers in IT have been imported in the past seven months, 5000 in accommodation and food services and almost 2500 in retail. 

 

"These are plainly areas where the two million Australians in insecure work or the 660,000 Australians who are unemployed could be trained and could find secure, skilled work," the PM will say.

heraldsun.com.au 13 Mar 2013

Australian law makers and corporations are laughing all the way to the bank with the advent of globalisation, and the open slave labour trade market.

Governments rake in thousands of dollars for each visa application, as some are rejected only to benefit the pockets of government only to be accepted at a later stage.

Telstra recently axed 600 Aussie jobs, only to employ 1500 Indian workers, with the company still in profit to the tune of two workers per person employed from overseas.

The Australian job market has been barstardised by politicians and law makers, to the detriment of the general community, forcing skilled I.T. professionals to the dole queues, effecting their families well being.

Politicians and law makers jobs should be outsourced as a way of improving the Australian economy.