What a weird crabs-in-a-bucket argument against unions. "Don't empower yourself and the rest of your colleagues because they might get powerful enough to kick you out"?

The whole reason H1Bs were invented is to disempower the existing workforce. Not reaching for a (long overdue) tool of power for tech workers is playing right into their hand.

The colleagues are all screaming to kick you out. Someone would have to be mentally differently abled to want to lend their voice to the chorus of people asking to kick them out.

You can call it what you want to legitimize it but these people want immigrants out and empowering them means immigrants get kicked out.

If you want to get kicked out as an immigrant definitely support them.

The funny thing is that you're not wrong and this is yet another feather in the cap of "foreign labor are literal scabs" argument.

The history of unions and the past of the AFLCIO is filled with successful lobbying to prevent immigrants from becoming American. They’re not going to stop suddenly today.

Knowing one’s enemy is key to fighting them.

This comment made me laugh. I have not seen the term "scab" since the late 1980s when there were a bunch of union strikes in my area. It is funny to see it applied to white collar (office) workers.

Edit: I found this funny quote describing a scab from the early 1900s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London#Diatribe_about_sca...

    > After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.