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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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This article is a must read for every player in September's discussions on comprehensive immigration reform.

Ovbery lays out the case: companies have been misusing immigration laws to outsource American jobs. Don't ask for whom comprehensive immigration reform is for -- it's clearly for us.

A provision of the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2009, intended to prevent companies from replacing American workers with H-1B visa holders, will make it more difficult for outsourcing vendors to place H-1B professionals at customer sites if the legislation is passed.

"While the fate of the legislation that would alter the administration and regulation of the H-1B visa program remains up in the air, one thing is clear: The bill contains an important provision, designed to prevent the displacement of American workers, that could put a serious wrinkle in the typical offshore outsourcing arrangement."

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On Oct-28-2009 04:53 PM Liz Stuart commented:
I don't think the proposed legislation really gets to the core problem -- companies are hiring from overseas because they are greedy and they make make more profits by paying lower wages and benefits to guest workers. If they can hire foreign workers, then they even have a motivation to lobby for less funding for American schools. We should take the employers at their word when they claim they can't find Americans to do the jobs. When the employer hires a guest worker because they can't find an American worker, they should be required to pay a fee equal to the wage differential + 5%. So, if they hire a guest worker for $80,000 in wages and benefits and the going rate for an American worker is $100,000, the the employer should be required to pay a fee of $25,000 per year for the privilege. That money can then be used to provide education in the scare specialty to American workers, so that trained American workers become available. Liz

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If they hire a guest worker for $80,000 in wages and benefits and the going rate for an American worker is $100,000, the the employer should be required to pay a fee of $25,000 per year for the privilege.

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On May-17-2010 02:13 PM Stephen Thacker commented:
Toilet paper with knee-jerk legalese. Worthless bill as I expected. The thing has no teeth whatsoever. The problem is this. Politicians will not bite the hand that feeds them or their campaign war-chests. Companies that outsource IT jobs, payoff ( lobby) the politicians to cough and look the other way. This bill is not worth the time to wipe your backside with it. NEXT!

On May-17-2010 02:29 PM Stephen Thacker commented:
I should have read the other comments a bit more thoroughly. 80,000K a year jobs are a near extinct event. Companies that outsource American jobs expect workers to meet or exceed those slave labor peanuts. The American worker either takes a substantial pay-cut or doesn't get the job. The carpetbagging companies doing this need a big ray of sunshine on their practices. Nothing worst than a bad reputation, real or perceived. The media could help us out with this method, IF they weren't already on the hush hush payout from these very un-American companies. They would sell more airtime and papers bringing to American TV than a Toyota car. The truth is, the US media is probably on the boards of these very companies. Taking their cut and looking the other way. .

On Jun-09-2010 09:27 AM Torrent Basket commented:
The bill will never pass into law. Our Congress is bought and paid for. We have the best democracy money can buy.

On Jun-15-2010 04:52 AM outsourcing tech support commented:
Thank your for sharing this article. Hopefully this legislation will lighten the conflict regarding outsourcing.

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