Americans Betrayed Once Again: H-1B, offshore outsourcing

By: TurnVirginiaBlue
Published On: 5/31/2007 11:51:03 PM

Yesterday we had an incredible betrayal of the Professional workforce by Maria Cantwell (D-WA).  She has introduced S.Admt 1249 which will absolutely decimate Americans in STEM careers as well as target most middle class careers for labor arbitrage.  Other Corporate representatives are Cornyn, Leahy and Hatch.

The Programmers Guild has already issued a damning report on what this amendment would do. This post is a must read.

With so many labor organizations and facts screaming in the face of Congress on how middle class jobs are being targeted for offshore outsourcing and labor arbitrage, why do our representatives seem hell bent on selling out working America?
The Answer is a lobbyist organization, Compete America, which buys off our Congress to labor arbitrage their constituents and give in essence, ultimate control over immigration policy to it's members.

This video overviews the actual number of jobs in the US for STEM professionals (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics):

Cantwell's amendment would:


1.  Give unlimited H-1B guest worker Visas to anyone, anywhere, from any school, any nation with any "Masters" in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
2.  Give unlimited H-1B guest worker Visas to anyone from anywhere who received a US Masters degree in anything.
3.  Enable corporations to replace American workers with guest workers
4.  Put control of immigration status under the employer through "employer sponsored" green cards
5.  Increase H-1B Visas to 150,000 per year even though the evidence is overwhelming these Visas are used to offshore outsource, technology transfer and labor arbitrage American workers.

And if Cantwell's betrayal isn't enough, good ole Joe Lieberman, is also busy screwing over working America with same corporate written amendment, SA 1242, also sponsored by Democrat Maria Cantwell. 

I must ask this question, does Maria Cantwell, a Democrat, supposedly the party that represents working America, think her constituent is Bill Gates?  What about the many tech professionals in the state of Washington?

Yet while our Senators spit in our face, busy selling out working America, we cannot even get a basic start on Durbin-Grassley S.1035 legislation to help stop the destruction of American careers.

This is an action item, the word is they are going to try to ramrod through this amendment early next week. 

Comments



Well, well, you can't take your gaze off of them for one second (Hugo Estrada - 6/1/2007 11:28:58 AM)
or our Senators and Representatives in Congress begin to do the dirty legislative work of corporations.

I would say that this affects not only tech professionals but any kind of professional whose work is not bound by location to the U.S.

TurnVirginiaBlue, write a diary on this in Kos and let us know when it has been posted so that we can promote it. Others should know about this as well, and the only thing that can stop a lot of money is a lot of people writing to Congress.



I did (TurnVirginiaBlue - 6/1/2007 2:06:35 PM)
Here
and I got attacked as a racist plus it's being spammed by some "bloggers" with a vested interest in labor arbitrage.

Fascinating, one guy claims to be with labor and I don't think so, since the diary is full of labor press releases and research links!



Ah, found it and recommended it (Hugo Estrada - 6/1/2007 2:38:54 PM)
I also subscribed to your feed, so I can recommend your post when I visit there.

I am checking the the diary right now, and I noticed that most people in the poll say that they will contact their representatives about it.

Also, you seem to have a troll there.



3 trolls (TurnVirginiaBlue - 6/1/2007 2:50:58 PM)
actually and one who is really outrageous claiming to be "labor" yet demanding anyone, any foreigner in a US university be given immediately a green card.

It's just unreal, esp when we have capable Americans who not only cannot afford it...even getting in has become so exclusive, to the point of absurdity and no correlation to "getting out (graduating)". 

Thanks, and please spread around...the problem really is the middle class for the most part (college level and above professionals) just are not organized and unions haven't made enough headway so there is no real "power" organization to represent our interests...

I honestly think Politicians really underestimate the power of this issue due to this.



The "pro" labor troll (Hugo Estrada - 6/1/2007 4:04:19 PM)
may be a sock puppet. No past diaries, and the only comments that he has made were in your diary.

I once got a diary hijacked by a troll. It is no fun.



ah (TurnVirginiaBlue - 6/1/2007 11:35:11 PM)
those are bannable and you might report it to miss laura or so on...there is officially no sock puppeting and that would explain a hell of a lot!@


H-1B is an outsourcing tool ... (loboforestal - 6/1/2007 11:54:27 AM)
Here's the top H-1B guest worker companies ...

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED 
WIPRO LIMITED 
MICROSOFT CORPORATION 
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED 
SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LTD 
COGNIZANT TECH SOLUTIONS U S CORP 
PATNI COMPUTER SYSTEMS INC 
IBM CORPORATION 
ORACLE USA INC 
LARSEN & TOUBRO INFOTECH LIMITED 
HCL AMERICA INC 
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP 
CISCO SYSTEMS INC 
INTEL CORP 
I-FLEX SOLUTIONS INC 
ERNST & YOUNG LLP 
TECH MAHINDRA AMERICAS INC
(source http://www.informati...=)

With the majority of the biggest H-1B corporations being Indian outsourcing companies, one must wonder if it is truly in America's best interest to expand this program.  Looks like it needs some extensive trimming and cleaning up; not a green lighting for massive global labor arbitrage.



Hillary shames the party (relawson - 6/1/2007 6:58:43 PM)
Her position on this issue is shameful.  We all know that the H-1b visa is used to exclude American workers from the job market.  We know that Indian companies get the lion's share.  We know that most of the workers are, according to the DOL, the lowest skilled in their ranking of skill and paid less than American workers.

This is yet another reason why campaign finance reform is so urgent.  There is no doubt in my mind that Senator Clinton is aiming for some of the silicon valley money.  And she is willing to step on American tech workers in the process.

Booo for Hillary.



Yup, sell us out to a roaring crowd (TurnVirginiaBlue - 6/1/2007 11:34:11 PM)
We need to get a position statement on all of this from as many Democratic primary candidates as possible and then advertise it widely.

I'm serious, because most professionals are not unionized...they are seriously underestimating just how pissed off the working public are about having this displacement of US professionals with guest workers and the general middle class career labor arbitrage agenda.

We cannot have Hillary be the nominee, we're going to have
"they are both the same" as in Bush/Gore, Bush/Kerry from all of those labor centric voters and so we'll get a GOP corpocrat in there once again.

It's it disgusting how they just have as their constituents a group of bloodthirsty greedy soulless CEOs hell bent on destroying America?  It just made me sick!



bad news (TurnVirginiaBlue - 6/2/2007 2:28:46 PM)
Edwards also promised the vulture labor arbitraging CEOs more H-1B Visas.

The only Democratic candidate who is speaking truth it appears is Dennis Kucinich.

Well, Go Dennis!.



When, gotta link? (relawson - 6/2/2007 3:26:41 PM)
I know his prior voting record wasn't favorable on this.  Would like to see where he is now.


Kucinich link (TurnVirginiaBlue - 6/3/2007 1:18:13 AM)
http://kucinich.us/i...

He's inconsistent in not recognizing how illegal immigration depresses wages and so forth, but this is a very strong statement by him and I'm very impressed, somewhere he dug into this.