This is real quick because you need to take action fast. We now have 13 Governors lobbying for more H-1B guest worker Visas.
Here are our Benedict Arnold Governors selling out their constituents Please note that a major corporate lobbying firm is where this letter is posted. Nice huh, to have United States Governors speak from a corporate lobbyist propaganda web site?
Here are our traitors:
Please call their offices and let them know how there is no worker shortage and how offended you are that they are doing the bidding of corporate lobbyists for a well known labor arbitrage agenda.
Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts is going to be on the radio in Boston tomorrow afternoon on “Ask the Governor”, from 2-3pm EST. The email address for the show is askthegovernor@969fmtalk. com . The Call in number is 617-822-1969.
Governor Patrick in particular one can ask him about his signing of the H-1B — why would he do that when Keane was bought by an Indian company, and they are going to lay off 26% of their workers in Boston and replace them with Indian workers. Why would he do this when EDS is going to lay off 12,000 employees? Why would he do this when his own government laid off IT workers last year when the IT Bond Bill wasn’t passed?
What kind of campaign donations was he promised to sell out American workers in Massachusetts? Further — why would he do any of these things when economists are telling us we are going into a recession?
Last but not least, there is a massive rumor that the minute these corporations get their way with de facto unlimited H-1B Visa increases…expect massive layoffs. That’s not so far fetched for certainly in 2000, the minute H-1Bs were massively increased, layoffs started. Now they used the Dot con collapse as an excuse, but nothing compares to that kind of job loss within the United States in relation to just that event and over such a long period of time. In other words, firing of Americans and massive increases in H-1B guest worker Visas seems to be strongly correlated.
Update: WashTech, a CWA affiliated union has a new action item to contact the 13 state Governors wanting to sell workers down the river. This is a 1,2,3 click and send, so please take the 45 seconds out of your day and support American Professional Workers!
Update: Governor Bill Richardson, Presidential Candidate and current Governor of New Mexico to this question:
Rose: Would you change visa policy with respect to people who come here to study and might be willing to stay if they had their visas?
Richardson: Yes. That means H-1B visas, that means looking for workers in this country that we need in certain sectors. This means focusing not just on illegal immigration, but legal immigration. There’s a huge backlog of enormously talented people and workers that, because of red tape and bureaucracy, can’t get in, especially in the computer sector, especially in health-care areas. Yes, I would. Those H-1B visas, I believe, need to be increased to permit more skilled workers to come into our work force. This enhances our competitiveness.
Oh Really Governor Richardson? Does laying people off, denying jobs to US citizens, eroding career stability, promoting labor arbitrage, age discrimination enhance US competitiveness? Oh, I’m sorry you mean competitiveness for US jobs as in a massive oversupply! I see, you think it’s great that Americans might not have stable careers or be forced out of their careers or even work for $9 bucks an hour in a career which requires 5 years of difficult skills and education alone!
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