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Cook County Urges H1-B Reform

One of the largest county governments in the nation voted on Tuesday to open the H-1B visa-hiring program to US citizens and legal residents – in opposition to 13 governors who earlier this week urged Congress to expand the program, without ever requiring employers to seek local talent for top-dollar, white-collar jobs. more...

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NYT: "Court Orders Three H1-B Sites Disabled," Dec. 29, 2009 The routine intimidation of Indian tech workers has now been directed at American tech workers who wouldn't snitch on an Indian tech worker, threatening all Americans' free speech on the Internet.

New Jersey and Free Speech: "The action has labor rights activists, free speech activists, and even some beneficiaries of the H1-B visa program united in voicing opposition to the court decision," according to an editorial in the Oakland Journal, a local New Jersey paper.

Businessweek: "Jobs and Protectionism in the Stimulus Package," February 16, 2009 Critics of the H-1B program hailed the inclusion of the amendment as a victory. "The demand to reform corporate recruiting policies that ignore highly skilled local talent now moves center stage," says Donna Conroy, director of Brightfuturejobs.com, a lobbying group for visa reform.

Businessweek: "H-1b Visa Season is Here", March 31, 2009: On Mar. 31, Bright Future Jobs, a U.S. tech worker lobbying group, posted on its Web site 13 advertisements for jobs in which the employer designated a preference for H-1B visa workers or targeted them specifically for the positions, according to the Web site.

Businessweek: "H-1B Visa Law: Trying Again", April 24.2009: U.S. tech worker advocates praised these and other provisions in the bill. "We're thrilled that Senators Durbin and Grassley are requiring employers to seek local talent first," says Donna Conroy, executive director of Bright Future Jobs, a lobbying group for U.S. tech workers. "They recognize that American IT professionals have the talent, knowhow, and experience to push America's economic recovery into high gear."

Businessweek: "An Academic's Labor Helps Fight H-1B Visas," June 28, 2009
Anti-H-1B activists say they're worried less about academic research and more about shaping policy. "The thing that's missing in Norm Matloff's strategy is fighting for a seat at the table," says Donna Conroy, executive director of Bright Future Jobs, a lobbying group that advocates restricting the H-1B visa program. "We need a political movement that allows us to help craft legislation. All the numbers [Matloff] crunches won't have nearly the impact as American technical professionals standing up for themselves."

CIO MAGAZINE: "H-1b Reform Bill Could Complicate Offshore Outsourcing,"
Many rank-and-file IT professionals laud the legislation. "The Durbin bill will put a stop to the outsourcing of American jobs and the discrimination against American IT professionals," says Donna Conroy, a former IT professional and director of Bright Future Jobs, a grassroots lobbying group for American IT workers. "This bill was written for us."

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Obama, H-1b and The Secret Tech Lobbyists Don't Want You to Know

Obama is ready to expand the H-1b employer program. But no nation can be strong when employers can legally ignore local talent.

The contrast of Senator Obama’s campaign call for expanding H-1b program just as layoffs increase dramatizes the need and opportunity for intensive lobbying by the high-tech community.

You have the power to bust the myth that tech lobbyists don't want the Obama team to know: that employers can bypass qualified Americans via the H-1b employer-visa hiring program.

Send this message to the Obama team:
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President-elect Obama can make headway on reclaiming the American Dream of Equal Employment Opportunity by supporting Durbin's H-1b & L-1 reform legislation (SB 1035).

Tech lobbyists spin myths to deflect the truth: that the H-1b and all other guest worker programs for top dollar, white-collar jobs allow employers to bypass the US workforce and even displace workers.

The Obama team should know that the DOL's Strategic Plan, Fiscal Years 2006-2011 states: "...H-1B workers may be hired even when a qualified U.S. worker wants the job, and a U.S. worker can be displaced from the job in favor of the foreign worker."

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Send them a message now demanding that the Obama administration push for passage of Senator Durbin's H-1b reform bill (SB 1035). It will restore Equal Opportunity to citizens and green card holders by requiring employers to seek local talent for their US job openings before tethering foreign workers to their company.

It will also prevent Indian outsourcing labor contractors from displacing Americans who are currently in jobs with their tethered foreign workers.

Now is the time to make the Obama team understand that expanding this employer program will bypass thousands of qualified Americans and green card holders.

Pls. submit your comments here: www.change.gov/page/s/yourvision

We are not alone in demanding that this be on Obama's radar. Here's a snippet from an editorial by The Day, published in New London, CT:

"Congress must determine if qualified American workers are being bypassed .... Shouldn't U.S. citizens get first dibs at U.S. jobs? Critics argue that employers rarely, if ever, have to certify that no qualified U.S. workers are available before hiring from abroad under H-1B."

As the NYT reports, "The plunge is so severe that some executives are comparing it with the dot-com bust in 2000, when hundreds of companies disappeared and Silicon Valley lost nearly a fifth of its jobs."

Total Company Layoffs : 202
Total Employees: 63,825

Here's a sample of layoffs from TechCrunch:

Sun microsystems	November 14, 2008	World	5,000	15%	New York Times
ForbesAutos.com/ForbesTraveler.com	November 14, 2008	New York, NY		99%	SAI
Rearden Commerce	November 13, 2008	Foster City	40	10%	TechCrunch
Jobster	November 13, 2008	Seattle	15	38%	TechFlash
Shopzilla.com	November 13, 2008		30	10%	TechCrunch

Posted by Donna Conroy at 06:16 PM on Nov-16-2008
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On Nov-17-2008 02:41 PM Tom Hines commented:
Donna, this post is right on the money. Durbin's bill, SB 1035, needs to be passed into law. US employers are being handed visas to hire foreign workers. They would be able to hire US citizens and green card holders instead. Our government has provided this avenue to corporations, and they are using it to practice legal discrimination against Americans. It must change. US employers need to start hiring the US citizens who are qualified for the jobs and are available to accept the positions locally. Push for Equal Opportunity for US citizens and green card holders.

On Nov-17-2008 06:46 PM Stan Danton commented:
It's criminal that they can bypass us for the tech jobs. When will the war on the American middle class end? CEOs have gotten away with far too much already. We have to demand that US companies consider US workers for the jobs. Call your members of Congress and tell them about this. Yes on SB 1035.

On Nov-18-2008 05:38 PM Steve Kleeban commented:
Here's the overview of the US job market for the year up to October. Jobs: Worst in 5 years Payrolls shrink by 159,000 - 9th straight month of cuts. '08 total: 760,000. http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/03/news/economy/jobs_september/index.htm?postversion=2008100313

On Nov-24-2008 02:19 PM Tom Hines commented:
Shrinking Wall Street to cost New York 225,000 jobs http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/081124/business_us_newyorkcity_jobs.html

On Nov-24-2008 02:25 PM Tom Hines commented:
blog reprinted: "USA in decline" But... they've been wrong before. Whatever happened to Japan? They were supposed to become the new world leader, at sometime during the 90's, according to the crystal-ball-gazers who spun economic mythology in the early 1980's. http://www.tothecenter.com/news.php?readmore=7711

On Jan-26-2009 05:17 PM Tom Hines commented:
More Than 40,000 Layoffs http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/CEOProfiles/story?id=6731375&page=1

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On Aug-11-2010 02:16 AM Parameshwaran Ganeshan commented:
View from other side of the world: For me, it is a simple give and take transaction, if you want to have an income from a market, you need to ensure that there is income in that market and hence jobs need to be created and this applies to both way..... this way, Indian Airline Industry and telecom industry, should resist US manufacturers who manufacture airplanes in USA and high end mobile phones in the western world.... so you get as you give

On Aug-12-2010 01:57 PM watch anime commented:
Obama supports raising the H-1B cap & did so in the U.S. Senate immigration bill in 2007. It would have increased the current 85,000 cap, which includes 20,000 visas set aside for graduates with advanced degrees. The Senate hard work, which died in the House, would have allowed increases of up to 180,000 H-1B visas, as well as additional visas for advanced-degree graduates. Obama also continues to support comprehensive immigration reform.

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