Congress is back in session. Instead of taking up the financial crisis, the budget deficit, oil speculators, the energy bill, extended unemployment benefits or any legislation that puts U.S. citizens first for jobs in their own country….the very first thing they are going to try to do is, increase employment based Visas by over HALF A MILLION!
550,000 to be exact.
These are employment based Visas. Yet they want to bypass any pretense of considering American workers first and even the requirement to have a high school diploma in order to obtain one!
Just as a refresher, here is the classic caught in the act video of a law firm, making a lot of money, just to ensure an employer doesn’t have to even consider an American worker for a job when bringing in foreign labor on one of these employment based Visas:
Don’t believe us that this is about cheap labor? Yet again, this is another lobbyist written bill, pushed for by Compete America, one of the biggest corporate cheap labor lobbyists on the hill. Where are Americans being represented in Congress? Nowhere. American workers are pretty much on our own here through the valiant grassroots efforts of the few. Please…
A most long overdue question on whether Techies should form a union is being asked on InfoWorld.
Sixty-hour work weeks with no overtime or comp time, a BlackBerry hitched to your belt 24/7, mandates from managers who have no clue what you actually do – all for a job that could be outsourced tomorrow. Is it finally time for technology workers to form a union and demand better working conditions?
I say hell yes. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics…Programmers, System Administrators and Web Designers all have one thing in common, they are being labor arbitraged and treated like disposable people.
And…they do not stand up for their own interests and join forces! Why not? Honestly do you really believe that the world is simply going to reward you on your personal brilliance? That a high IQ cannot be a commodity item just as much as physical labor is?
One of the main issues with forming unions for Professional workers is the reality that people are free agents plus skills are so diverse it’s very difficult to perform wage negotiations as an aggregate work force.
One person might have support skills, another might be a PhD level researcher with decades of investment…
A most long overdue question on whether Techies should form a union is being asked on 