Considering how badly corporate lobbyists have sew up the Democratic party when it comes to global labor arbitrage against working professionals, well pardon me for my skepticism. Still during the confirmation hearing of Labor Secretary Solis, this question was asked:
In terms of H-1B Visas, what is your position on that?
The below video clip in her answer.
Folks, keep writing, speaking out and demanding your legislators pass S.1035 intact.
Lou Dobb’s Bill Tucker gives a blockbuster report on how PhDs, Post Doctorates are being paid peanuts. There is also an active agenda to wage repress the nations Engineers and Scientists in research through use of the H-1B Visa program.
The article mentioned in this report is Taken for Granted: Brother, Can You Spare a Temporary Worker Visa?
Tags: Outsourcing · Labor · H-1B
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…
