Help H-1B VISA (labor arbitrage)

[Robert Oak]

This is an action alert from the IEEE USA (this is the engineering body of the US)

IEEE CARE Member: A serious proposal to increase the H-1B cap by 75% next
year is currently being debated in the Senate. Worse, the proposal includes
a provision that would allow the cap to be automatically raised 20% after
any year in which the cap is reached. Please click on the Alert link to read
more about this dangerous proposal, and then follow the instructions to send
your legislators a message expressing your opposition to any plan that would
increase the H-1B cap. Most members of Congress believe that the H-1B
program is too small for most voters to care about. Your letters are needed
to convince them otherwise. After you have sent your letters, please tell
other IEEE members about this legislative proposal and ask them to join our
efforts by contacting their legislators. Politics is all about numbers. The
more often politicians hear from voters on this, the more influential each
letter will be. IEEE-USA strongly believes in the important contributions
immigrants have made to our country. But H-1B visas are not immigration
visas. They do not give workers residency rights and do not confer
citizenship. IEEE-USA is working to convince Congress that the permanent
immigration system should be reformed, making temporary visas, like the
H-1B, unnecessary. I can be reached at [e-mail] or (202)
530-8326 if you have questions or concerns about this alert. Thank you for
your help.


We need your help to contact your representatives. What's going on in the Senate is Spector has
put massive labor arbitrage VISAs into the immigration bill.

H-1B has been proven to be a labor arbitrage method. What happens is they fire an American, replace them
with a H-1B at much lower pay.

It's been proven these VISAs are being seriously abused and displace American engineers.

Please write your Senators to say NO H-1B increase.

[acmejack]

1. This is a major issue & has been killing American engineers for years!

They are trying to make a bad thing worse for us!

[Robert Oak]

2. Yup

typical strategy, they target certain work sectors because the public at large isn't going to be outraged.

We need to get more people to take action on this.

[old_techie]

3. H-1B action alert

You can take action on this alert via the web at:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/H1B/x3dkdx207wd6bx?

[Greyhound]

4. I've mailed my representative and both my senators on this issue

although it will not help as they are all bushbots. I have one question, however, were the hell was the IEEE when they were doing this to us in IT?

[Greyhound]

5. Still no answer...

:kick: anyway.

[Robert Oak]

6. IEEE

Yeah, firstly they are international in organization, so you have pressure from the American side versus the International side.

Secondly they deal with standards bodies (government standards also), publications, R&D and so on, so they are not a labor
organization.


It's very PhD heavy with the IEEE probably being the largest professional organization publishing Academic papers in engineering.

Thirdly they come from that classic "never say anything" "company man" sort of conservativism.

Finally when it was so obvious that Americans were being displaced they came out and started lobbying.

Internal to the IEEE years before they finally did, there was major conflict and there still is.

So, in a nutshell, if the IEEE is lobbying against something, you know it's really bad for they truly are the most conservative
organization speaking in behalf of engineers.