Lou Dobbs Show, CNN Interview with Donna Conroy, Director Cook County Urges H1-B Reform Aired Sept. 19, 2007
Cook County Urges H1-B Reform September 18, 2007
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...
Exposé: DOL Documents Report that Employers Can Bypass & Displace Local Talent January 4, 2007 (Washington, DC)
..."That's because a small organization dedicated to helping American workers get jobs for which American companies are now importing foreign immigrants has uncovered a 2006 document demonstrating that letting foreigners take jobs Americans could fill is in fact the policy of the Bush Administration. more...
You can restore equal opportunity to the US workforce. Start by inviting your Senator to co-sponsor (S1035) "The H-1B and L-1 Visa Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007". It will reform the H1-B hiring program in three important ways:
requires employers to recruit from the US workforce first
requires employers to attest that the H-1B visa holder will not displace an American worker
requires that companies advertise the job opening for 30 days on the DOL web site before resorting to the H1-B program
Greenspan Proposes Displacing US homeowners with H-1bs -
Alan Greenspan: Opening the door to more skilled foreign workers could boost housing market
Former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan offers a solution to the U.S. housing slump that's hit markets such as Phoenix, Southern California, Miami and Las Vegas particularly hard: Allow more skilled foreign workers into the U.S.
Google Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., other U.S. corporate giants and Arizona technology advocates are renewing an effort to expand foreign worker visas for high-tech positions.
Video: Liberal Think Tanks Report Glut of US Sci & Tech Grads -
The Urban Institute reports between 1985 and 2000, the US workforce produced 3 times the number of tech and science grads than jobs they were trained to do.
According to the study, Americans and green card holders received 435,000 Bachelors, Masters, and PhD.'s in science, engineering and computer science yearly from 1985 to 2000. However, the economy could only produce 150,000 jobs annually for these graduates during the same period. That's a defict of 280,000 jobs annually. High-tech employers couldn't produce enough jobs for 4.2 million STEM graduates, with two-thirds of these graduates never able to practice their craft. Separate studies by Harvard University, Duke University, the Rand Corp, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation also report an oversupply of STEM graduates.
The H1-B visa-hiring program allows American high-tech firms to bypass these graduates and recruit only citizens from abroad. Help us pass the Durbin-Grassley H & L Reform Act of 2007 by donating here.
Posted by Donna Conroy
at 12:00 AM on Dec-01-2007
Senate Bill Gives U.S. Workers First Dibs on H-1B Jobs -
Senate Bill Gives U.S. Workers First Dibs on H-1B Jobs "Introduction of this bill explodes the myth that these job openings had to be competed on the domestic job market first," said Donna Conroy, of brightfuturejobs.org, a Chicago-based lobbying IT and white-collar lobbying group. "The H-1B and L-1 visa programs are a license to exclude U.S. workers for at least a quarter-of-a million, top-dollar, white-collar jobs per year." Click To Read More
