Three Senators are sticking their necks out to restore Equal opportuntiy to the US workforce. Can you reward good behavior by calling your Senator today to urge him/her to vote "YES" on SA 1468?
Call today. The vote will take place by the end of the week. Say, "Vote yes on SA 1468, the MacCaskill-Durbin-Grassley admendment. "
"The right to compete for job openings is the cornerstone of American opportunity. We must guarantee this right for oursleves and future generations."
Senator Clair MacCaskill (D-MO) has now joined Durbin and Grassley to force employers to consider citizens and green card holders before using the H-1b and the new Y guest worker programs.
Aides have assured me this will be a close vote...so every call you make will bring Equal Opportunity just that much closer.
The amendment requires DOL to compete the job opening on their web site. It takes away the employers' right to set the wage offered to citizens from abroad - and put it squarely in the hands of the DOL. This means that ordinary citizens will finally have input on the "prevailing wage."
It also caps an employers ability to file entry-level jobs in the H-1b program to 30%. This is extremely important to community college grads and 4-year grads. Over half of the job openings in 2005 were entry level jobs - many, of course - with free training.
so good thing the bill died but you need to watch out on recommending things....because those Corporate lobbyists are sneaky, arm twisting and they turned this amendment into a trojan horse....after a series of labor groups wrote up letters similar to your post here.