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Jeff Merkley and Steve Novick on Immigration
2008-05-07 00:38:00 Immigration is the 3rd rail of politics, especially for Democrats. One is guaranteed to be name called and attacked if any attempts to have a controlled immigration policy are made. In the Oregon Senate Democratic Primary, not surprisingly, finding out where the candidates stand is a hard, long dig. Like stepping through a mine field, one false move is guaranteed to be targeted by some special interest group. Let's go past the name calling hype and try to find out where they really stand and why these positions are vital to US workers. Steve Novick on Immigration: [flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmExdWhcVx g] First, Novick talks about the small business owner getting wiped out by the competition through use of cheap illegal labor. Yet in the very next sentence, he endorses the failed Comprehensive Immigration Bills! The comprehensive immigration bills were opposed by the AFL-CIO because they were loaded with guest worker Visas and were anti-labor. Jeff Merkl... More About: Immigration , Jeff Merkley
Straight From the Horse?s Mouth - It?s about Cheap Labor
2008-04-25 06:59:00 If you can find high-quality talent at a third of the price, it's not too hard to see why you'd do this says EDS chairman Ron Rittenmeyer. So much for the talk of domestic shortages of engineers. EDS has shifted literally tens of thousands of jobs overseas. EDS owns the India-based offshore outsourcing firm, MPhasis, which uses the H-1B & L-1 visa programs to facilitate this transfer. WashTech, a local of the CWA (AFL-CIO) has an action item to demand the extension of student worker Visas be set back to it's original. If you are a Professional worker and have your own personal horror story on wage arbitrage, displacement through insourcing and/or offshore outsourcing, may we request you join Hire Americans First and add your story so the facts of how guest worker Visas are used to displace US Professionals cannot be dismissed. For your viewing pleasure, another group has made a series of you tube videos worth watching: [flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BIvffAHsJ s] ... More About: Labor , Mouth , Cheap , Straight , Horse
DHS Illegally Changes Rule to Increase Foreign Guest Workers
2008-04-08 22:51:00 Michael Chertoff, per Bill Gates and George Bush's demands, bypassed Congress and increased foreign guest workers through a ruling and executive order. No input from US workers, no votes, nothing. Even worse, Bill Gates claims a weakened America is a good thing! DHS Changes Rule The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released today an interim final rule extending the period of Optional Practical Training (OPT) from 12 to 29 months for qualified F-1 non-immigrant students. The extension will be available to F-1 students with a degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics who are employed by businesses enrolled in the E-Verify program One small problem. Students graduating in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics majors are about three times the total number of new jobs created in the United States for these majors. So now, to make matters worse, DHS increases the ability to hire foreigners, insuring more Americans cannot get a job! UI PAUL ALAMEDA,... More About: Globalization , Workers , Foreign , Guest
Senators Grassley & Durbin Confront Firms, Stand Up for American Profession
2008-04-03 00:09:00 DURBIN AND GRASSLEY ZERO IN ON H-1B VISA DATA God bless Senators Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley. They are asking some tough questions on H-1B and L-1 Guest worker Visas and how they are being used. For some background, H-1B guest worker Visas are a temporary, corporate sponsored method to bring in foreign labor. The program is supposed to be about supplementing the US labor force with specialty skilled professionals who cannot be found domestically. But instead, the program often bypasses American professionals capable of performing the work desired. In other words, the H-1B guest worker visa is often used as a labor arbitrage vehicle. Labor arbitrage is a method to increase profits by squeezing wages of workers. Business Week has published a handy table showing how the biggest users of these insourcing methods (bringing in cheaper labor via guest worker Visas) are Indian firms which specialize in providing technical services at lower costs. From his press release Durbin ... More About: Profession , Stand Up , Stand
The Bill Gates Show
2008-03-13 05:41:00 Once again, it's the Bill Gates propaganda show on Capital Hill. This time Gates got his own personal hearing in front of the House Science Committee. Of course our representatives fawned and flattered, despite the fact Gates was spewing lies of astounding proportions. Like a fountain of fictional statements, Bill Gates spouted his global labor arbitrage agenda. Spread like rancid butter across our Unrepresentative of America Congress, most just licked their lips in Bill Gates adulation.  Let's go through some of the spin. The threat from Bill Gates: Microsoft will offshore outsource jobs because Congress won't let us bring in unlimited cheap labor. This is an obvious lie for H-1Bs have been shown to enable offshore outsourcing and are referred to as the outsourcing Visa.  Microsoft has been moving R&D offshore for years even when they had in essence unlimited guest worker Visas.   Gates claim that 1/4ths of startups are started by immigrants... More About: Show
Oh Canada, Catching Obama on NAFTA DoubleSpeak?
2008-02-28 20:52:00 Hope, change, or is it false hope? This is must see TV, straight from CTV, a major Canadian network, who checks their sources and it's damning. They catch Obama in a bold faced lie on NAFTA. From CTV: Within the last month, a top staff member for Obama's campaign telephoned Michael Wilson, Canada 's ambassador to the United States, and warned him that Obama would speak out against NAFTA, according to Canadian sources. The staff member reassured Wilson that the criticisms would only be campaign rhetoric, and should not be taken at face value [flash http://www.youtube.com/v/_LtbLEKHsi0 ] There are two must see video reports. The first is the original story, the second is the Clinton campaign not only denying they did anything similar but encouraging CTV to investigate and out anyone even remotely affiliated with them who could be found to make such promises to not renegotiate NAFTA. [flash http://www.youtube.com/v/jAJYMgX4JuU ] So far, it sure appears that CTV is dead on, whi...
Obama Insults A Constituent - India, H-1B and Labor Arbitrage
2008-02-25 10:43:00 Obama Pledges Partnership with India In an article he has written for India Abroad, the Illinois senator has also committed that he will encourage the active engagement and partnership of the Indian American community in "making the change we seek" in US If anyone is not aware, India is intent on obtaining more offshore outsourcing "business" and guest worker Visas to take US jobs. This is as one of their main agenda items. They claim it's simply trade. Offshore outsourcing is now ~7.5% of their GDP. Obama goes on to claim: Together, we can restore and revitalize America's innovation-based economy so that we can create jobs and meet our most pressing domestic challenges," he said. Acknowledging the prowess in IT and high technology fields of Indian Americans who have powered Silicon Valley, he said: "To succeed, we need to make use of technology, a sector where so many Indian Americans have thrived. Realize he is not talking to US workers, he is telling India they can have o... More About: Obama , Labor , Arbitrage , Insults
Hillary and Obama on Higher Education
2008-02-13 09:00:00 Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery -- Horace Mann Unfortunately many people believe Hillary and Obama have the same policy positions. They do not actually. Here's a comparison contrast of Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's higher education policies. Higher Education policy is important not only if you are ever thinking of affording college for your self or your children, but also directly affects our economy, innovation, social justice and mobility in the United States. The plans are long and I suggest you click on the links to read the details. Highlighted below are the differences and when the policies were identical it was not included. Obama Tax Credit: $4,000, fully refundable, universal Community College Partnership Program to strengthen community colleges by providing grants to: skill analysis for jobs new trade degrees for jobs rewar... More About: Education , Higher Education
Hillary and Obama on Trade
2008-02-10 05:33:00 While the choices for President slim down to next to none, one might evaluate positions instead of joining the various cheer leading camps. Who, overall has the best trade, economic positions to stop this global train wreck? Firstly any group name calling someone protectionist because they acknowledge the obviously massive ~5.6% GDP trade deficit, is obviously not basing their economics on anything remotely resembling reality. The reason I link to this Pro Obama group is because they want more bad trade agreements. They assessed Obama as more of a corporate free trader than Hillary . Below are some statements from the two for easy comparison contrast. Obama Fight for Fair Trade : Obama will fight for a trade policy that opens up foreign markets to support good American jobs. He will use trade agreements to spread good labor and environmental standards around the world and stand firm against agreements like the Central American Free Trade Agreement that fail to live up t...
John McCain Insults Michigan with Offshore Outsourcing Ousted CEO Carly Fio
2008-01-14 08:38:00 There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore - Carly Fiorina, Jan. 7, 2004, CEO Hewlett-Packard John McCain has one hell of a rude attitude toward Michigan . McCain is campaigning with Ms. No American has a God given right to a Job ex-CEO of Hewlett Packard Carly Fiorina. Fiorina promoted offshore outsourcing, fired people right and left, turned Hewlett Packard into a shadow of it's former glory right in the middle of the last economic recession. Turn to today, Michigan has been decimated by offshore outsourcing, insourcing, insane trade agreements and CEOs who obtain obscene amounts of money for running their companies into the ground, making bad mergers and laying off their workers. So, what does McCain do? Try to sell them on the corporate agenda claiming it's tough talk. No McCain, it's the corporate agenda and not policies for the interests of workers, Michigan or the United States of America. If it isn't insulting enough to see a Politician campaign w... More About: Outsourcing , Offshore , John McCain
John McCain Is Not Your Friend
2008-01-06 11:45:00 John McCain is not your friend. He's not anyone's friend when it comes to the Corporate global agenda. From this interview, McCain proclaims: Look, globalization is the answer.... Below is a MTV interview where McCain answers questions on outsourcing and immigration - my apologies for the length and ad, MTV controls their clips; after the ad, go at least to the midway point of the video Look at this answer from McCain: I'm not going to bring jobs back to United States So, people with top tier Masters degrees, PhDs and Bachelors degrees should be retrained? Isn't that the ultimate insult? It is jobs which require high skills, advanced college degrees, which are going offshore or being insourced through guest worker Visas. So, McCain is advocating sending the most educated people in the world to community college instead of dealing with the realities of differing wages between nations? Even more showing on how out of touch he is, McCain claims: 50k people make a living from... More About: John , Friend , John McCain
The Great Lobbyists? Propaganda Machine
2008-01-03 01:08:00 Intel corporation is laying people off. That's right, while Craig Barrett, Intel CEO, writes in the Washington Post yet another propaganda piece trying to scare Americans by claiming if the United States does not import massive cheap labor, we will fail economically, Intel is busy thrashing their workforce. No one pointed out that Intel has been in the midst of some major downsizing. From Intel's Form 10-K annual report, at the end of Dec 31, 2005 they had 99,900 employees. By Dec 2006 they had 94,100 and now according to Barrett it has 86,000. The downsizing was announced sometime last year and the plan is to cut 10,000 workers. Barrett has some chutzpah talking about shortages, but then the global wage arbitrage agenda to ultimately repress wages so workers are glorified consumer slaves knows no bounds. The Washington Post, where the wife of Bill Gates sits on the board, buried a factual retort from John Miano via a Letter to the editor: The Blue Card that Mr. Barrett sai... More About: Globalization , Machine , Great , Propaganda , Lobbyists
What We Didn?t Get for Christmas
2007-12-26 06:02:00 One could say all they want for Christmas is their two front teeth. But we want much more than that. We want Congress to do the right thing and pass these bills: S.1035 : H-1B and L-1 Visa Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007 (Durbin-Grassley) H.R.2538 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide greater protections to domestic and foreign workers under the H-1B nonimmigrant worker program. (Pascrell) H.R.2504 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the admission of L-1 intra-company transferee nonimmigrants. (DeLauro) H.R.548 : To establish a Congressional Trade Office (DeFazio) Right now any meaningful reforms on H-1B guest worker Visas cannot get any traction in Congress because Corporate lobbyists simply do not want these reforms. Why you might ask? Because it will cut into their global labor arbitrage cost cutting agenda that's why. All of these bills are both Pro US worker and help protect a H-1B visa holder from exploitation a... More About: General
The Forgotten Ones - Stories for the rest of U.S.
2007-12-24 01:51:00 While we are barraged with consumerism, warm family reunions, red and green displays of devotion, one might ponder how the holidays are for those most affected by our ever despairing economic conditions. A tent city East of Los Angeles is springing up for those who have lost their homes in foreclosure and cannot afford to pay ... More About: Stories , General , Rest , Forgotten
Dot Con Bubble, v.1.1
2007-12-20 22:21:00 (Either JavaScript is not active or you are using an old version of Adobe Flash Player. Please install the newest Flash Player.) There isn’t much to say after watching this video. Your jaw is just too low on the floor to speak. Bear Stearns writes down $1.9B. Morgan Stanley writes down $9.4B and sells a stake to China. Citigroup writes down $17.8B ... More About: General , Bubble
The Mitt Romney Immigration Double Speak
2007-12-18 10:28:00 Mitt Romney wants to send your job to China and if he can’t do that, he wants to bring in cheaper foreign labor to displace you anyway. While Mitt Romney trudges across Iowa blasting his opponents on illegal immigration, look at how willing he is to labor arbitrage other Americans and increase guest worker Visas! While ... More About: Globalization , Outsourcing , Double , Mitt Romney , Immigration
Is Obama for Change or Just More of the Same?
2007-12-15 04:59:00 We hear much about change these days with Oprah buzzing around Barak Obama casting the magic star power spell. But my question is do you really want star power Oprah Winfrey endorsed with slick campaign ads or do you want policy that is truly going to change America and finally stand up for our real interests? Could ... More About: Change , Trade
Giuliani?s Plan to Destroy the American Middle Class
2007-12-13 22:29:00 Hot off the presses folks! Yes, that’s right, Mr. Patriotic 9-11 wants to make sure middle class workers are displaced and exposed to labor arbitrage! Aren’t you glad he’s such a loyal American ? Loyal to corporations operating in America that is. Look at Rudy Giuliani ’s top priority: Expand the number of H1B Visas for skilled foreign ... More About: Globalization , Outsourcing , Trade
Is John Edwards Getting it on H-1B guest worker Visas? Chris Dodd too?
2007-12-07 06:59:00 Earlier I wrote a piece exposing Edwards history for promoting more labor arbitraging guest worker Visas, yet in a recent NPR debate he sounds like he might be realizing Americans are being displaced, or at least is feeling the heat. This is a good thing, certainly most of Edwards positions are more in line with ... More About: John Edwards , John , Chris , Dodd
Outsourcing National Security
2007-11-23 05:41:00 Most engineers know there are many ways to hide malicious code and design within architecture. Yet, most subscribe to an engineering code of ethics, the thought of such a betrayal analgous to a Medical Doctor using their skills to commit murder. Yet in terms of policy is our Government undervaluing the national loyalty of most US citizen engineers? ... More About: Security , National , Outsourcing , National Security
How to Serve Up a Special Interest Agenda
2007-11-20 05:14:00 You might have noticed on the left blogs right now, we have front page posts on immigration, illegal immigration that is. All it takes to write one of these stories is this easy to follow recipe: Start with the word xenophobic and then sprinkle around racism accusations, name call a few people bigots, finally add a ... More About: Globalization , Special , Labor , Agenda , Interest
Gee, Thanks For Nothing Governor Gregoire!
2007-11-18 23:48:00 (Either JavaScript is not active or you are using an old version of Adobe Flash Player. Please install the newest Flash Player.) Watch a Washington State Governor utter blatant falsehoods on the current state of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics labor market as well as pretty much dismiss out of hand someone speaking up who clearly has ... More About: Outsourcing , Labor , Hank
Speaking Truth to Power, a House Committee Hearing
2007-11-15 02:49:00 The House Science Committee held a hearing on November 6, 2007 completing their series on Globalization of R&D and Innovation. Before you go to sleep, some fairly shocking testimony proving there is no worker shortage and some additional shocking facts on how the US debt is affecting job creation as well as how current research grant awards ... More About: Truth , Power , Labor
Congress & Corporations Don?t Want to Invest in Super Smart Americans
2007-11-08 21:11:00 Yesterday, a very popular amendment that would have funded programs for super smart kids and created college scholarships for Americans was gutted by the Conferees, yes that’s our House representatives and Senators, to the H.R. 3043: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008. The amendment would increase fees on ... More About: Congress , Smart , Super , Corporations , Invest
A Glimmer of Hope; fees increase on H-1B guest worker Visas
2007-10-29 19:53:00 Senator Bernie Sanders(I-VT) and Senator Chuck Grassley(R-IA) managed to get a increase in H-1B guest worker Visa fees attached to H.R. 3043: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008. The Senate adopted by voice vote a Grassley-Sanders amendment, S.AMDT.3325 to the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations bill. ... More About: Fees , Hope , Guest , Visas , Worker
Traitors in our Midst: The IEEE-USA Teams with Corporate Lobbyists
2007-10-14 06:27:00 With friends like these who needs enemies? The IEEE-USA issued a statement supporting turning our University system into a glorified green card machine. They also have literally teamed up with a corporate lobbyist organization, the SIA, to issue their policy position. The IEEE-USA claims to be concerned about career and labor issues for it’s United ... More About: Globalization , Outsourcing , Corporate , Teams , Labor
Bullying a Nation into Giving Up its Sovereignty
2007-10-07 06:02:00 It appears that Costa Rica, the lone hold out in not ratifying the CAFTA-DR trade agreement, is now under enormous pressure and strong arm tactics. We are on the eve of discovering whether the bullying, propaganda, and threats worked or not. The ratification vote is tomorrow. From Eyes On Trade Just when you thought the Bush administration was at its ... More About: Bullying , Nation , Sovereignty , Giving
Alan Greenspan Recommends Wiping Out the Middle Class
2007-10-03 01:27:00 Alan Greenspan’s solution to economic inequality in the United States is to turn all Americans into 3rd world serfs. He also thinks Americans really do not need middle class incomes, nope, we all just greedy little chickens pecking out power for power’s sake. We pay the highest skilled labor wages in the world. We need to supress the ... More About: Outsourcing , Labor , Middle , Alan Greenspan , Class
Extra, Extra! We need H-1B guest worker Visa reform!
2007-09-29 08:32:00 We need H-1B guest worker Visa reform and no, we do not need what Corporate lobbyists want. Dr. Norm Matloff, probably the most definitive expert on H-1B guest worker Visas, has written a new paper, Fixing Our Badly Broken H-1B Visa and Employer-Sponsored Green Card Programs. This is a must read. what the industry lobbyists say ... More About: Reform , Extra , Guest , Xtra
Blow Your Own Horn - Open Thread
More articles from this author:2007-09-23 03:06:00 Come On, Pipe Up! It’s time to blow your own horn. This is the place to post latest articles, comments, personal stories that you want some attention to but are possibly too short to write a complete blog story. Your comment will show up on the front page under latest comments to bring some attention to your voice. ... More About: General , Open , Thread , Horn 1, 2 |
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