This page is dedicated to information related to the H-1B & L-1 Visa Programs and AT$T and corporate America's ongoing offshore outsourcing of American jobs. AT$T and corporate America have embarked on this course of action for one reason, CORPORATE GREED! The initial POP-UP Message contains five (5) items that describe the saga of AT$T's training of foreign nationals, offshoring of American jobs and its potential threat to America's Homeland Security. AT$T's training of foreign nationals commenced in January 2002 as an "AT$T Contingency Plan" in the event of a strike by CWA & IBEW union workers in May 2002. As you read the background information check to see if your Congressperson is a member of the congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans. If your Congressperson is listed, e-mail him/her to protest their offshoring of American jobs. Articles posted BELOW are listed in chronological order. Finally, before you leave our site, please register for CWA Local 4250 e-mail alerts! Fight Back: Steve Tisza, President CWA Local 4250

External link to Lou Dobbs webpage at CNN with links to past segments and ongoing nightly polls.

On Thursday morning, June 16, 2005, thanks to CWA District 4 Vice President Jeff Rechenbach, I was interviewed by talk-show host Ed "Flash" Ferenc to discuss my recent trip to India. Download MP3 file to listen to interview.

The largest caucus of its kind in the U. S. Congress. One of their objectives is to push India's economic agenda on the hill. Click on to check if your Congressperson is a member of the caucus. If Yes, WRITE and object to the H-1B Visa Program and OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING OF AMERICAN JOBS!

A new caucus called 'Friends of India' has been formed in the US Senate, similar to the 10-year-old Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans in the US House of Representatives. This is the first time in the history of the US Senate that a country-focused caucus has been constituted and announcing its formation was the driving force behind the move Senator John Cornyn, a Republican Senator from Texas who recently visited India. The co-chair of the caucus is Hillary Rodham-Clinton, Democrat from New York. External link to check if your U. S. Senator is a member of the caucus. If Yes, WRITE and object to the H-1B Visa Program and OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING OF AMERICAN JOBS!

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JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER No. 1883 --By: Rob Sanchez. Lou Dobbs had three excellent reports about Nielsen replacing American workers at the Oldsmar location. The three videos on Youtube and the transcripts are below:

"In the 1990s, dot-com celebrations were happening everywhere. From Silicon Valley to Boston, from Austin to Seattle, the geeky Lambda Lambda Lambda frat brothers from Revenge of the Nerds were suddenly big men on campus, starting computer companies, swimming in cash--partying, as Prince might say, like it was 1999 (it actually was 1999). As the kegger raged upstairs, though, a group of Microsoft employees at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, called the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers--WashTech for short--was shrieking from the basement about an impending economic massacre. Sadly, very few were listening. Now the party's over--and a white-collar uprising is on." Download complete article in PDF format.

Vince Wade explains the H-1B visa scam in a short animated video.

'We write to express our strong objection to bringing to the House floor any time in the remaining days of the 110th Congress legislation to increase temporary foreign worker visas, skilled or unskilled."...."We strongly oppose any legislation that increases temporary work visas of any kind, in any manner, including exemptions from visa category caps. Please side with American workers and their families, and turn aside the reckless appeals of corporate special interests." Download entire letter sent today to US Represenatives Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer from some 20 organizations expressing their opposition to increasing H1B and H2B visas, in PDF format.

This article establishes that "things of value" were provided by Microsoft Corporation in order to facilitate "official acts"--changes beneficial to Microsoft in H-1B visa law in 1996, 1998, and 2000. Microsoft lawyer-lobbyist (and felon) Jack Abramoff played a critical role in conspiring with 10 members of his network and elected officials to expand the "Abramoff visa" (the H-1B visa). As a consequence of the employment discrimination against older and minority American citizens, this author seeks prosecution of the conspiring parties under RICO. Download entire article in PDF format.

"A report released yesterday by the nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) posits that most of the workers hired under the H-1B visa program do not possess optimum technological skills. Authored by University of California-Davis computer science professor Norman Matloff, the study indicated that the wages paid to technology workers who receive H-1B work visas tend to barely exceed the prevailing wages that federal law requires employers to pay these workers. CIS also reports that most of the workers receiving the technology employment visas work either at entry level or just above it. It deduces that most of these foreign workers are not the finest in their fields and therefore do not serve as evidence that the H-1B visa program has brought many technological innovators to U.S. shores. "In pressuring Congress to expand the H-1B work visa and employment-based green card programs, industry lobbyists have recently adopted a new tack," Mr. Matloff wrote. "Seeing that their past cries of a tech laborshortage are contradicted by stagnant or declining wages, their new buzzword is innovation." He said that while workers from abroad may not show unique technological proficiency, one motive compels the industry to press federal officials to expand the number of visas they may utilize. "Because they're cheap," he said. He noted two studies, both commissioned by Congress, which indicated employers admitting that they did not pay H-1B recipients as much as they paid Americans. Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute, said he agreed with the conclusion that those hired under work visa programs tend not to exceed their native-born counterparts in skill. "The companies are not interested in attracting the best talent," he said. "They're really using the visa as a cost-cutting mechanism. If you wanted to get the best people, you would offer more than the average wage." U.S. Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have introduced legislation to remove loopholes in the law allowing some employers to avoid paying the prevailing wage to H-1B workers. Their bill would also prohibit an employer from hiring someone on a work visa within 90 days of a layoff. Mr. Matloff says it is early to tell whether the entirety of the bill stands a chance of becoming law." Download copy of Doctor Matloff's report in PDF format.

640 CWA members who work for Western Union in Missouri and Texas are about to lose their jobs. Earline Jones, president of CWA Local 6377 knows why. "It's about globalization. They say they ran the numbers, and it's cheaper for them to do business elsewhere. They're outsourcing America, and what will be left?" We're pursing every possible avenue to stop Western Union from walking away from these workers. But we need your help. Click below to tell the Western Union CEO Christina Gold to stop outsourcing America and keep good, union jobs in Missouri and Texas!

[THIS TESTIMONY WAS GIVEN BEFORE THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP, REFUGEES, BORDER SECURITY, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW ON APRIL 16, 2008.] EPI urges Congress: Cut or Eliminate H-2B Visas! As the country drifts into recession and U.S. workers face rising unemployment, Congress is fiddling with the idea of expanding a controversial visa program that enables employers to recruit tens of thousands of foreign workers for jobs they claim they can't fill with U.S. workers. In testimony before Congress, EPI Vice President Ross Eisenbrey makes the case that, rather than expand H-2B visas, we should scale these much-abused visas back significantly or eliminate them altogether. Read the full testimony below:

"Mohanty Dolagobinda is one of the Visa God's believers. Three years ago, a U.S. consulting company applied for a visa on his behalf. It was rejected. When the company tried again the following year, Mr. Dolagobinda's friends told him to visit the Chilkur Balaji temple ahead of his interview at the U.S. consulate. Weeks later, he sailed through the interview. "I've never heard of anyone who's gone to the temple whose visa got rejected," says Mr. Dolagobinda." Download entire article to see what we are up against.

"Between 2000 and 2003, Korenberg and Rodriguez filed fraudulent employment-based visa petitions on behalf of foreign nationals seeking temporary work visas or permanent residency in the United States, according to a 33-count federal indictment. At least 19 of the foreign nationals who benefited from the scheme were employees of the defendants' law firm, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Investigators said Korenberg and Rodriguez wrote false job titles and salaries on visa applications, citing jobs that didn't exist. They also lied about the foreigners' work experience." Download story in PDF format.

'As we look at both parties, their candidates and their campaign rhetoric of hope and change, there is a lot of talk about magically creating good jobs for people but little substance on how that's going to be accomplished. Who talks about fixing the negative impact that the H-1B visa program has made on the economy of this country? The Republicans? Jay Leno had an interesting observation on that. Hillary Clinton is for expanding the H-1B visa program. She says she's willing to sacrifice more jobs and the well-being of families. It's funny how the unions haven't picked up on this. Barack Obama hasn't really addressed H-1Bs and John McCain isn't seeing it as a problem. Here is what needs to be done:" Download two (2)columns by James Carlini in PDF format.

"Ephraim Schwartz wrote an editorial yesterday bemoaning the fact that 19 debates have gone by without a single question about the H-1B issue. After last night's debate, that number goes up to 20 debates! Did you notice that in last night's presidential debate the topic of immigration was avoided, except for Obama briefly complaining that Clinton's touch back provision for guest workers wasn't effective? I'm Not sure what Obama had in mind, but presumably he just wants guest workers to stay here forever until they get amnesty. In 90 minutes of debate, this is all that was said about the topic of immigration." Download Rob Sanchez JobDestruction Newsletter in PDF format.

"More than likely the H-1B contractors that are replacing the Chrysler workers are from bodyshops like Infosys or Tata. Tough to speculate further unless the union provides more information." Download Rob Sanchez Newsletter in PDF format.

"My bachelor's was from a top-notch science and engineering school in California, Harvey Mudd College. I worked hard to earn a Ph.D. in biophysics at SUNYAB between 1973 and 1984. I was unable to pursue a career in radiation biophysics. Now aged 56, I have had to face the prospect of homelessness more than once because employers prefer "fresh (inexpensive) young blood" - now mostly via the controversial 1990 H-1B visa program. The H-1B Visa gave to many employers the same advantage (special handling) that colleges and universities such as SUNYAB obtained via the obscure 1976 "Eilberg Amendment." Download opinion article by Dr. Gene Nelson, in PDF format.

"The new e-notification system that's being developed should be online by April, when the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services begins accepting H-1B visa petitions for fiscal 2009, which starts on Oct. 1. But that's not the only process change to H-1B visas that's being worked out. The Dept. of Homeland Security and Dept. of Labor are studying other administrative and regulatory "fixes" to help streamline H-1B processes, he said. Those proposed changes likely will be made public in the coming months. Among the ideas being mulled is a plan for the U.S. government to host a meeting for "H-1B stakeholders" to discuss ways of improving the work visa process, he said." Download complete article in PDF format.

"IBM announced Tuesday that it has opened another global delivery center, this one in the city of Noida, located in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and is planning another center in the area by mid-2008. Both centers will employ about 3,000 people, IBM said. With the addition of those two, IBM will have six global delivery centers and will employ more than 70,000 people working out of facilities within some 10 cities in India." Download entire aerticle in PDF format.

In their zeal to enlist government help to expand the supply of tech workers through foreign guest worker programs, employers are misrepresenting IT labor market conditions. However, if the candidates for president aren't asked about it - how can we expect them to do stand up for it once they get into the White House? Help us make H-1B Visa reform an issue by visiting http://dyn.politico.com/debate and submitting a question to be asked of the candidates at the CNN debates at the end of this month. A sample question:"Given the numerous reports showing there is no shortage of tech workers, would you agree to cut or eliminate the H-1B Visa program?" Download entire article and a link to submit your question.(NOTE) You must register to submit a question. HOWEVER, registration is not required to VOTE on a question already submitted. The H-1B question has already been submitted to candidates from both parties under economy and immigration issues. . While on the website VOTE on these questions to be asked of ALL CANDIDATES.

"Wadhwa found no general shortage, only "specific shortages in&specific areas of technology" such as the newly emerging field of biofuels, he says. Dozens of employers asked to compare American engineers to their much-vaunted colleagues from India and China agreed that "in education, training, quality of work, you name it, in every which way, Americans are better." Even the best schools in those countries "don't hold a candle to our best schools," he continues. Newly hired American university graduates "become productive within 30 days or so. If you hire a graduate of an Indian university, it takes between 3 and 6 months for them to become productive." The image of shortage arises from "emotion versus fact" and "misinformation that feeds on itself," Wadhwa says." Download complete article in PDF format.

"Although China and inadequate U.S. safety systems are often blamed, U.S. toy corporations decisions to shift production to countries without adequate safety systems and trade policies companies pushed through Congress that limit import safety standards and inspection are the root causes of the imported toy safety crisis, according to a report released today by Public Citizen. Improving toy safety will require changes to trade policy as well as U.S. product safety policies, the report concludes."Our children's safety has been the price for soaring profits and CEO pay of major U.S. toy companies that have chosen to relocate their production to venues in which they cannot ensure the safety of their products," said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch division, which produced the report. "The main villains in this unhappy holiday story are the CEOs of major U.S. toy and retail companies who spent millions lobbying to lock in race-to-the-bottom offshore production strategies with trade agreements that protect their overseas investments while limiting import safety and inspection." Download Press Release and copy of the report in PDF format.

TORAW is out of funds and that its membership has shrunk to a handful of people, down from the initial wave of several hundred who signed on as members. "People lost interest in the fight," Bauman said. Many of TORAW's members have moved on, in some cases taking jobs in other industries. For instance, one of the organizers is driving an 18-wheeler, while another is doing home repair work, said Bauman, who has been focusing on TORAW's activities on a full-time basis. If there is any hint of resignation in Bauman's voice, it's not from lack of effort. In 2003 alone, lawmakers from Connecticut introduced three bills proposing changes to the H-1B and L-1 programs. TORAW also held protests, one outside of an outsourcing conference in New York. One member of the group held a sign that read: "Will Code for Food." "I don't regret anything that we've done," Bauman said. "We tried our best." Download complete article in PDF format. Well Done John! Steve Tisza, President CWA Local 4250 - Chicago

"While Senator Clinton is on the campaign trail, promising US citizens and LABOR her full support when it comes to jobs, she weaves a tangled web of deceit, hidden from the voter, unseen, yet providing a billion dollar bonanza for India and allowing for thousands of visas for Indian workers to enter the United States to work at jobs that SHOULD RIGHTFULLY have gone to US graduating engineers and IT professionals. Jobs that we NEED in THIS COUNTRY. Yet she remains above it all, knowing all along she has become one of India's best friends in the United States, enabling them to plunder the job market here in the United States, outsourcing professional jobs while new graduates scramble looking for work here in the United States.: Download article from Obama website in PDF format.

Reduce costs immediately. All the talk about growing revenue instead of attacking overhead is hard to swallow given the heavily leveraged structure of the buyout. Expect buyouts and layoffs. Also likely: shrinking the circulation footprint of some newspapers to save on newsprint and delivery costs and outsourcing more business functions. Tribune newspapers already outsource circulation customer service calls to a call center in the Philippines operated by APAC Customer Service of Deerfield, Ill. Other U.S. print publications have begun farming out advertising production and basic word-processing tasks to contractors in India (See: "Dateline: Bangalore"). Download complete story in PDF format.

"Last week, the Kenyan government signed an agreement with French-US telecom group Alcatel-Lucent for a fiber-optic cable linking the Kenyan port of Mombasa with the United Arab Emirates. More important, it will connect East Africa to the rest of the world's Internet capacity and replace the slow and costly satellite links that act as a brake on the country's fast developing industry in business process outsourcing (BPO). At the signing, Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Information and Communications, said the connection would allow more ordinary Kenyans to surf the Internet. But the real driving force behind the deal, he said, was the potential for creating jobs in call centers and the rest of the outsourcing industry." Download complete story in PDF format.

"There is no more of a shortage of US scientists and engineers than there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The US media has no investigative capability and serves up the lies that serve short-term corporate and political interests. If it were not for the Internet that provides Americans with access to foreign news sources, Americans would live in a world of perfect disinformation. Offshoring interests and economic dogmas have combined to create a false picture of America's economic position. While the ladders of upward mobility are being dismantled, Americans are being told that they have never had it better." Download recent article by Paul Craig Roberts in PDF format.

December 12, 2007 (Network World) "News of AT&T Inc.'s plans to scale back it telework program have set the industry buzzing. Dozens of readers, some who say they are AT&T employees, commented on Network World's recent story about how the telecommunications company is requiring possibly thousands of home-based employees to give up their virtual offices and return to corporate office sites... "Others speculated that AT&T's moves could be intended to force attrition -- some teleworkers might opt to leave AT&T rather than return to an office. "Some might see this as a cheaper way to lay off a bunch of employees as a prelude to outsourcing them," wrote one reader." Download complete article in PDF format.

"Integrity is so lacking in America that the shortage myth serves the interests of universities, funding agencies, employers, and immigration attorneys at the expense of American students who naively pursue professions in which their prospects are dim. Initially it was blue-collar factory workers who were abandoned by US corporations and politicians. Now it is white-collar employees and Americans trained in science and technology. Princeton University economist Alan Blinder estimates that there are 30 to 40 million American high end service jobs that ultimately face offshoring. As I predict, and as BLS payroll jobs data indicate, in 20 years the US will have a Third World work force engaged in domestic nontradable services." Download entire article by Paul Craig Roberts, in PDF format.

"A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies examines the size, growth, and characteristics of the nation's immigrant, or foreign-born, population as of March 2007. The reported provides a detailed picture of overall immigrant population and of the illegal immigrant population." Download entire article and copy of the new report, in PDF format.

"Ross Perot was fiercely against NAFTA. Knowing what we know now, was Ross Perot right?" That's what CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Hillary Clinton at last week's Democratic presidential debate. It was a straightforward query about a Clinton administration trade policy that polls show the public now hates, and it was appropriately directed to a candidate who has previously praised NAFTA. In response, Clinton stumbled. First she laughed at Perot, then she joked that "all I can remember from that is a bunch of charts," and then she claimed the whole NAFTA debate "is a vague memory." The behavior showed how politically tone deaf some Democratic leaders are." Download entire article by David Sirota in PDF format.

At the same time the White House is pushing to vastly expand the job-killing, wage-destroying NAFTA trade model, we get this from Bloomberg News (full story attached below): "President George W. Bush may veto legislation to expand benefits for workers harmed by international trade because it would cover more workers than necessary, a White House statement said...Specifically, the Bush administration objected to a provision that would provide added unemployment insurance and training to service workers, such as x-ray technicians or call center workers, and expand a tax break to help unemployed workers pay for health insurance...'If this bill were presented to the president in its current form, the president's senior advisers would recommend he veto the bill,' the statement said." Download PDF file for more information.

Download a solidarity message from Ralph Maly, CWA C&T Vice-President, to the French Unions who held press conferences and informational pickets today protesting the Alcatel-Lucent Board's new plans and restructuring. Also includes today's WSJ article about Acatel-Lucent, in PDF format.

"Vivek Wadhwa is very good at diagnosing problems and articulating them on paper. Having said that, there is not much in his article that hasn't been written many times before (see footnote below). The only difference is that Wadhwa is a CEO that happens to be a naturalized citizen from India, and he happens to write for Business Week. My guess is that the mainstream media will ignore his article because it has a little too much of the truth, and he makes enough credible points to make most corporacrats squirm. Wadhwa is somewhat of a heretic, and I'm sure he will receive wide scale condemnation in the business and Indian communities for writing the article. That doesn't mean we should embrace his positions on employment based visas, but we certainly should use what he says to bolster what we have been trying to say for years." Download Rob Sanchez' JobDestruction Newsletter #1777. Rob provides readers a thought provoking analysis of Vivek Wadhwa's recent BusinessWeek opinion article titled: "The Science Education Myth", in PDF format.

"As Congressional Quarterly reported this week, K Street lobbying firms are now staffed up with former Democratic congressional staffers. As all of this shows, they are verifying what Leo Hindery told me in my most recent nationally syndicated newspaper column: "The wealthy are now a political constituency unto themselves that is decidedly nonpartisan." Hindery calls it "nonpartisan" - I call it buypartisan. Whatever you want to call it, it is fueled by the very corruption we are seeing on trade, taxes and now on immigration. This is the Democratic Party of Washington, D.C. - a party that seems more and more comfortable selling out the middle-class to make corporate lobbyists happy." Download entire article by David Sirota, in PDF format.

"If Elias thinks this is all due to the Big Bad Republicans (here I must insert the disclaimer that I am a longtime liberal Democrat), he needs to take another look. Support of H-1B is thoroughly, and outrageously, bipartisan. The program was created by a Republican president with a Democratic Congress, then expanded twice by a Democratic president with a Republican Congress. Hilary Clinton, Barak Obama, John Edwards and other major Democratic candidates for president have all stated that H-1B needs to be expanded, and none is willing to admit that it is a badly abused program which is pushed by major corporate donors to the candidates' campaign and party funds. My own senators, Boxer and Feinstein, have been bombarded with complaints about H-1B, yet refuse to recognize the problem, and continue to support the program. And though Elias is also correct that bills by Durbin (with equal participation from Republican Grassley, whom Elias somehow "overlooked") and Pascrell would do a good job in reforming H-1B, NONE of those Democratic senators above have signed on as a cosponsor. Elias is completely wrong in his claim about Tancredo and the immigration reform organizations. Tancredo has both spoken out against H-1B and introduced legislation to fix it. FAIR, NumbersUSA etc. have also been quite active on the H-1B issue, as Elias would have learned if he had simply taken 30 seconds to glance at their Web pages. It's depressing to see a journalist with such a wide audience write such a sloppy, misleading column." Download rebuttal of Tom Elias column by Dr. Norm Matloff, in PDF format.

"Sometimes writers and editorialists try to do the right thing, but they get duped. The iditorial that is appearing in small newspapers like the Palo Alto Daily News is a prime example. The author appears to be a pro-labor liberal that probably intended well, but he relied on a website with faulty information called BrightFutureJobs. I could be giving the author too much credit for good will considering his comments on Tom Tancredo (see more on that below). To find out more about the website in question go here: http://www.brightfuturejobs.org/ BrightFutureJobs was founded and is directed by Donna Conroy. I'm not totally sure what her goal or purpose is, but it has something to do with ending discrimination against Americans -- which is definitely a worthwhile goal. Go to the website to see if you can figure what she is all about. Most of the webpages are sprinkled with Conroy's thoughts about how H-1B allows discriminatory employment practices -- and she doesn't let facts get in her way! You will also be given many opportunities to give money to the organization -- perhaps some of that money goes to efforts at fooling gullible journalists. Donna Conroy sent a newsletter on behalf of BrightFutureJobs with gobs of braggadocio about where the writer got his information for the column. Since Conroy claims credit for the column I think it's fair game to blame her for the results. In this case the fault may have been just as much with the one who provided the information as with the one who wrote it. This editorial is quite insightful. What's amazing about this column is that he was able to glean this information from our web site. He got every point we were making. In contrast, some journalists are confused forever. Thomas D. Elias saw how Brightfuturejobs.org is distinguishing itself." Download JobDestruction Newsletter #1773 by Rob Sanchez, in PDF format.

"The Bush administration and the Republican Party are often criticized for refusing to aggressively use the "soft power" of international diplomacy. But alas, the attacks are misguided. This crew is more than willing to use "soft power", not in Iraq, but in Central America, and not in an effort to bring American troops home, but in a ploy unfolding this weekend to enrich its big campaign contributors through the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)." ..."Costa Rica, by contrast, was the lone nation that refused to immediately ratify the pact. The pushback was a particularly damning commentary on the deal considering that, unlike its neighbors, Costa Rica is not some war-torn quasi-colony but a longstanding democracy, "Central America's most prosperous economy and a model of social stability for the region," according to the Los Angeles Times. Opposition to CAFTA exploded from every part of Costa Rican civil society; labor unions, human rights groups, religious organizations, you name it. The outcry was so intense that pro-CAFTA President Oscar Arias felt compelled to submit CAFTA to a national referendum, which will occur this Sunday, October 7. Now fearing a humiliating rejection of lobbyist-written trade policy on the global stage, the White House has dispatched U.S. Ambassador Mark Langdale to spearhead a campaign of intimidation, all on the taxpayer's dime. This Texas telecommunications and real estate businessman was installed as envoy to Costa Rica after dumping tens of thousands of dollars into President Bush's political campaigns. And like the loyal corporate crony he is, Langdale has been touring Costa Rica threatening economic reprisals if voters there dare to send CAFTA down to defeat." Download opinion by David Sirotta, in PDF format.

Preview by Rob Sanchez, Job Destruction Newsletter No. 1764: "I cannot say enough superlatives about this new paper from Dr. Norman Matloff. The paper is posted at this link: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/PrevWage.pdf For those of you that want to learn about H-1B and green cards, you can't go wrong reading this 25 page paper. It's divided into sections so you can read it in parts if there are particular sections of interest to you, or if you don't have the time to read the entire document. Download Dr Matloff' new paper in PDF format.

San Antonio-based AT&T Inc. announced plans Wednesday to bring 175 call center jobs once outsourced overseas back to the United States, part of a group of 5,000 outsourced jobs company officials plan to fold back into its operations. The new call center, to be located at AT&T Arkansas' headquarters in Little Rock, will help callers who have AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet services. The new union-represented jobs will bring AT&T Arkansas up to 2,800 employees with a $135 million payroll, said president Ed Drilling. "These jobs are currently outsourced to other companies and a lot of the work is actually done overseas," Drilling told a news conference at the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce. "We're bringing these jobs as part of an ongoing commitment back into the country." Download complete story in PDF format.

"Chief executive Ronald Rittenmeyer, who took over Sept. 1 from Michael Jordan, is hiring workers in India to replace more-expensive US employees and revive profit." Meanwhile he's laughing all the way to the bank. Download article in PDF format.

"The fastest-growing group of illegal immigrants in the United States doesn't speak Spanish. They typically aren't found at day labor sites or streaming across the Southwest border into the U.S. Instead, they're here in America working in tech companies, small businesses, as engineers or other highly skilled jobs. And they're coming from India. The profile of the illegal immigrant may need to take on a slightly more South Asian persona since a recent federal report revealed that India had the greatest percentage increase in unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. since 2000." Download complete article in PDF format.

Congress recently held hearings on the STRIVE ACT, which along with amnesty for illegal aliens, will more than double H-1B Visas. The Illinois AFL-CIO unanimously passed my resolution to ABOLISH the H-1B Visa 5 YEARS AGO this month. Has your State AFL-CIO passed a similar resolution. If not, WHY? Download a copy of my resolution from 5 years ago, in PDF format.

"The U.S.-India Political Action Committee has defended outsourcing vendors, most of whose employees are in India, although the group represents Indian-Americans. A profile of Mrs. Clinton on the group's Web site notes that "even though she was against outsourcing at the beginning of her political career, she has since changed her position." In an internal memo leaked in June, staff members from the Obama campaign contended that Mrs. Clinton's ties to wealthy Indian businesspeople had made her favor outsourcing. The memo cited the Clintons' ties to Vinod Gupta, an Indian entrepreneur who founded InfoUSA, one of the United States' largest brokers of information on consumers. Mr. Gupta, a major fund-raiser and benefactor for the Clintons who was nominated for ambassadorships by President Bill Clinton, was detailed in the Obama memo because his company outsources to India and he has vocally supported the practice." (NOTE) Hillary Clinton is the co-chair of the "Friends of India" Caucus in the U.S.Senate. Download complete article in PDF format.

"We don't believe that there is a labor shortage," says Kim Berry, president of the Programmers Guild. "There is perhaps a shortage of people willing to work at the salary being offered because those rates are now being set by visa programs like H-1B." Download entire Business Week article and response by Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D. (unemployed, 55 year-old American citizen scientist), in PDF format.

"Tata's business dealings reflect the bolder side of his personality. In the past four years he has embarked on an investment binge that is building his group from a once-stodgy regional player into a global heavyweight. Since 2003, Tata has bought the truck unit of South Korea's Daewoo Motors, a stake in one of Indonesia's biggest coal mines, and steel mills in Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. It has taken over a slew of tony hotels including New York's Pierre, the Ritz-Carlton in Boston, and San Francisco's Camden Place. The 2004 purchase of Tyco International's (TYC) undersea telecom cables for $130 million, a price that in hindsight looks like a steal, turned Tata into the world's biggest carrier of international phone calls. With its $91 million buyout of British engineering firm Incat International, Tata Technologies now is a major supplier of outsourced industrial design for American auto and aerospace companies, with 3,300 engineers in India, the U.S., and Europe." Download entire article in PDF format.

"As India's external affairs minister, Jaswant Singh, famously quipped after his country exploded a series of nuclear devices on May 18, 1998, in defiance of the international nonproliferation regime, India's in a "dangerous neighborhood." India never signed the nonproliferation treaty and never expressed any regrets about acquiring the bomb. Today, not even a decade later, the U.S. has fully pardoned India's nuclear faux pas. The Bush administration has pushed aggressively--and, critics say, too generously--to recognize India as a de facto member of the exclusive nuclear club, and to guarantee that it can develop its civilian nuclear capacity while preserving its military nuclear program. The U.S. is betting big on India. Why? And what's in it for India?" Download entire article in PDF format.

"Two years ago, Fortune 500 energy company NiSource Inc., of Merrillville, announced it would be cutting more than 1,000 jobs after inking a $1.6 billion outsourcing agreement with IBM. Five months ago, NiSource quietly told employees that financing and accounting jobs outsourced to IBM were coming back to NiSource because "some results had fallen short of expectations." Download complete story by Keith Benman, Northwest Indiania Times on-line news, in PDF format.

AT&T does not operate any research facilities in China and only outsources some services to Indian companies -- a strategy that contrasts with many of the world's leading multinationals such as Microsoft Corp. and Intel Inc. . "It may be time to re-think that," Gopinath said. China's cheap and abundant supply of well-educated engineers and scientists have made it a favourite place for a wide range of companies to establish research facilities.

"Since Tata arrived in Buffalo, "the reality is that it probably created many more jobs for workers overseas and displaced lots of American workers," said Ronil Hira, a public policy professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a prominent critic of outsourcing." Download complete story in PDF format.

"Fidel Castro recently complained that the H-1B program is a brain drain On countries like his. Many of the things he says about H-1B are true - In fact he seems more knowledgeable about the issue than our entire Congress and 99% of the American public." Download JobDesctruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

"Are we facing an IT shortage of crisis proportions, or systematically destroying a skilled and capable homegrown workforce?" Download a very informative article by, Alice LaPlante, Information Week and TWO MUST READ RESPONSES To her article: (Letter To The Editor) By: Dr. Gene Nelson,unemployed Science Ph.D. author, followed by an (Excellent Analysis) By: Norman Matloff, Professor of Computer Science,University of California,Davis, in PDF format.

"Chalk up another victory for the sharks! Soon after the lawyers filed lawsuits on the behalf of H-1Bs who don't want to wait for their green cards, the USCIS backed down like a bunch of sniveling cowards. It's worth noting that the USCIS is downplaying the threat posed by the lawsuits. They claim that it was public opinion that swayed them. Apparently the only "public opinion" they are listening to are those of the H-1Bs and the immigration lawyers. The statement below by the USCIS is simply appalling the way they casually disregard the American public." Download complete Job Destruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

"In the recent newsletter titled "H-1Bs take to the streets to protest" I discussed a protest that was carried out by a bunch of angry H-1Bs in San Jose. That story is only the tip of the iceberg however -- H-1Bs and some large law firms are filing a barrage of lawsuits over the same issue." Download Job Destruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

AT&T Inc. has announced the hosting of the first AT&T Asia Pacific Regional Advisory Council (RAC) meeting of the year in New Delhi from July 17 - 18. The meeting comes just one week after AT&T Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson visited India, his first international trip since assuming the chairman's office in June. Download Press Releae in PDF format.

Washington Gas Light Co has announced signing a 10 year contract with Accenture. This collaboration will result in the loss of 300 positions. OPEIU- Local 2 will lose 150 jobs, management will lose 100 jobs, and 50 are currently vacant. Let's make sure that Washington Gas HEARS US Loud and Clear. Join the hundreds of union brothers and sisters that are placing a call to Washington Gas on July 5 at 11:00am by forwarding this email to your local's e-activist network. CALL TODAY - JULY 5 @ 11:00AM - LABOR UNITES BEHIND WORKERS AT WASHINGTON GAS! Link to TAKE ACTION NOW!

Breaking news from Capitol Hill: An announcement by congressional Democrats delivers a major victory today for the progressive movement and millions of people represented by consumer protection, environmental, agricultural, small business, labor organizations and the courageous Members of Congress and state legislators fighting the good fight: The Secret Trade Deal of 2007 has been officially delayed, as K Street and their cronies in Congress are too afraid to bring it to the floor, for fear it will be defeated. Here's the scoop, fresh off the wire from Bloomberg News:

"A law firm called Cohen&Grigsby held a seminar to promote themselves as a one-stop solution for employers who want to replace their American employees with imported foreign workers. Cohen&Grigsby published a video of their seminar online at YouTube in 20 separate video clips that last from 5-10 minutes each. Their online infomercial became a public relations blunder when the Programmer's Guild published an excerpt of the seminar. Cohen&Grigsby promptly removed the videos on June 18, 2007. As a public service, all 20 videos have been restored. In these video clips you will discover the rules of engagement against the American Middle Class as practiced by immigration lawyers and employers. Link below to view all 20 videos.

AT&T announced this week that it will be bringing back from overseas nearly 650 Tier I DSL technical support jobs and locating them in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, later this year. Download PDF file for more information.

"Susan N. Houseman, a good but previously obscure economist with the Upjohn Institute, has discovered a problem in the statistical data that produces phantom US GDP. Phantom GDP results when cost reductions achieved by US firms shifting production offshore are miscounted as US GDP growth. Phantom productivity increases occur when gains from moving design, research and development offshore are counted as increases in US productivity. Obviously, production and productivity that take place abroad are not part of our domestic economy." Download entire perspective by Paul Craig Roberts in PDF format.

"Can the Clinton machine deliver another NAFTA? That is the question in Washington on trade these days, as dynamic similar to the NAFTA debate begins to take shape. The Colombian government, which has been tied to paramilitary gangs that execute union organizers, is spending lavishly to enlist top Clinton administration officials - including Hillary Clinton's top campaign strategist and President Clinton himself - to pressure Democrats on Capitol Hill to pass the Colombian Free Trade Agreement - an agreement that is part of the bigger secret deal." Download entire article in PDF format.

"Clinton said she's already trying to increase the number of so-called H1B visas aimed at highly educated workers. Silicon Valley companies use H1Bs to sponsor thousands of software engineers from Russia, India, China and other countries, but many must return home when their temporary work permits expire. "If you think you have a skills shortage now, project it out a decade and we're going to be in real trouble," Clinton said to applause from more than 200 executives attending the half-day CEO Summit by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. "We need to guide immigration reform to attract and retain foreign-born students who want to work in the United States," she said, observing that the globalization of the economy in the 21st Century poses special challenges. Download entire article in PDF format.

"Senators Chuck Grassley and Richard Durbin today asked the top nine foreign based companies in 2006 that used nearly 20,000 of the available H-1B visas to disclose further details about their workforce and their use of the special visa program." Download Press Release from Senators Durbin and Grassley. Also, a copy of one of the letters in PDF format.

"In the interest of full transparency, let's remember: It's not totally clear who has seen the actual legislative language of this deal as of now. What we do know is that while many "summaries" have been released, the actual language of the supposedly "reformed" Peru, Panama, South Korea and Colombia Free Trade Agreements have not been made public. We also know that the websites of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee only posted summaries of the deal 24 hours after the press conference, not the actual legislative language. Additionally, we know that the ongoing negotiations in pursuit of this deal were kept 100 percent concealed from rank and file members of Congress (including Congress's most veteran fair traders), reporters and the public, meaning the entire process has been shrouded in secrecy. Public Citizen's Todd Tucker has more on how the press summaries being released by congressional Democratic leaders and the Bush administration deliberately refuse to include the actual legislative language of the trade deals in question, and that these summaries could very easily be very different from the final language - as they were during NAFTA." Download entire perspective by David Sirota in PDF format.

When is local journalism not really local? When it's about Pasadena and written by someone in India. James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the Pasadena Now website, hired two reporters last weekend to cover the Pasadena City Council. One lives in Mumbai and will be paid $12,000 a year. The other will work in Bangalore for $7,200." Download complete story in PDF format.

"I have previously given strong endorsement to the Durbin/Grassley H-1B/L-1 reform bill introduced earlier this year in the Senate. Most of the bill is of little value, but there are a couple of provisions that would be very highly beneficial." Download entire opinion by Dr. Norm Matloff in PDF format.

"There are so many types of visas that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service is running out of letters of the alphabet to name them. A proposed immigration bill the Bush administration is discussing with Congress would create Y and Z visas to admit more temporary workers and grant legal status to those in the country illegally." Download complete article in PDF format.

"The corporations whine that H-1Bs are needed because of a shortage of Americans with skills, but major studies at UC-Davis and Duke universities conclusively prove we have thousands of unemployed or underemployed Americans with all needed technical skills. Nobel economist Milton Friedman accurately labeled H-1Bs a government "subsidy" to enable employers to get workers at a lower wage." Download complete article in PDF format.

"Ever since the offshore shift of engineering work blew up into a national issue four years ago, a question has nagged at economists and policy makers: Is outsourcing hurting America's engineering workforce? Or is it actually boosting engineering careers by making U.S. tech companies more competitive and allowing them to deploy engineers more effectively? Duke University has been at the forefront of assessing this issue with two major research projects -- one by the Fuqua School of Business and the other by Pratt School of Engineering. What's interesting is that the two studies, both involving surveys of U.S. executives, are coming to completely different conclusions. One finds that companies are going offshore because they are desperate for talent and are shifting more complex work to nations such as India and China for strategic reasons. The other Duke study concludes that the offshoring phenomenon is all about cost and that there is no shortage of engineers in the U.S. Therefore, the labor shift is coming at the expense of U.S. jobs. Download entire article and copy of the Duke University Pratt Study in PDF format. Also, ON PAGE TWO OF THE PRATT STUDY click the live link to statistics that dispel the myth that India and China graduates more than 12 times the engineers that the U.S does.

"The U.S. and South Korea agreed to terms on a trade agreement that would be the largest trade agreement since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed in the mid 1990's. Specifics are not available as the Bush United States Trade Representative (USTR) notified Congress at midnight on March 31st that they intend to sign the agreement even though the full text of the agreement doesn't exist yet. Regardless of the question of whether or not signing a nonexistent trade deal adheres to the fast track law which governs this process; the real question is why would our government sign something before negotiations are completed?" Download entire article in PDF format.

"Gomory's vision of reformation actually goes beyond the trading system and America's economic deterioration. He wants to re-create an understanding of the corporation's obligations to society, the social perspective that flourished for a time in the last century but is now nearly extinct. The old idea was that the corporation is a trust, not only for shareholders but for the benefit of the country, the employees and the people who use the product. "That attitude was the attitude I grew up on in IBM," Gomory explains. "That's the way we thought--good for the country, good for the people, good for the shareholders--and I hope we will get back to it.... We should measure corporations by their impact on all their constituencies. "So in my utopian dream, we decide what we want from the corporations and that's how they make a profit--by doing those things. Failing that, I would settle for the general realization of this divergence and let people argue it out." Some older CEOs and board members at least listen to him sympathetically. "They have grandchildren," he says. "They wonder too what's going to happen to our grandchildren. You can't get a vote around the corporate board table about, Is this good for the grandchildren? But you can talk to them and they'll worry about it and say, Well, maybe we need to do something." Download complete article in PDF format.

"Senators Durbin and Grassley will be eulogized today on Lou Dobbs and Anderson Cooper. The reason -- they introduced a bill that pretends to reform the H-1B and L-1 programs. Apparently nowadays all you have to do is to put on a charade and everyone jumps on the bandwagon. It just goes to show how desperate we have become for reform. Let's just start out being very blunt -- Durbin is not our friend. His voting record on H-1B is abysmal, so unless he has had an epiphany don't expect anything good to come out of his office. Let's just review Durbin's voting record to see what he does, regardless of what he says:" Download opinion by Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

"Instead of Congress seeking to expand the number of foreign workers in our country, they first must address the illegal immigration crisis that we are facing today. Congress should provide veto-proof support for increasing our Border Patrol, and not cave-in to the demands of foreigners by granting them legal status, or by flooding the job market with an even greater number of workers on the H-1B visa program." Download entire commentary in PDF format.

"I wish to express strong concern with the composition of the panel before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) for tomorrow's (March 7, 2007) hearing entitled "Strengthening American Competitiveness for the 21st Century." I am deeply disturbed the panel consists only of Bill Gates and excludes the voice of workers." Download entire letter to Chairman Kennedy and Ranking Member Enzi from Linda Chavez Thompson, Executive Vice-President, AFL-CIO, in PDF format.

"I understand that billionaire William Gates, III has been invited to appear before the Senate HELP Committe on Wednesday, March 7,2007. In the interest of a balanced treatment of this important topic, experienced American citizen programmers should also be given the opportunity to provide in-person testimony at this hearing." Download e-mail alert from Dr. Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D., in PDF format. Contact you Senators and DEMAND equal time for Labor witnesses.

A reader of one of my previous American Chronicle articles recently contacted me to see if I might be interested in some data for a future article about the current Republican leaders and some of their questionable past and current political connections. After checking out the background of the reader, I readily agreed to look over the data that he had compiled. The provider of this data is Dr. Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D. Dr. Nelson has been passionately involved in workforce issues for decades, including being called on to give testimony to the US House of Representatives in 1998 and again in 1999. He assisted in organizing demonstrations against H-1B visa program abusers including: Microsoft, Bank of America, EDS, Perot Systems,Texas Instruments and IBM. He is currently writing a book titled: An American Scam: How Social Interests Undermine National Security. He has also learned and written about the key individuals that have been the architects for the past years of destruction of the American, Science and Engineering Enterprise. Download entire article by Gary Alter in PDF format.

"Leading Democrats struck American engineers with a powerful left-left combo before the opening bell of round 3 of the H-1B battle. Senator Kerry (D-MA) and Senator Kennedy (D-MA) attempted to secretly add an amendment to the Minimum Wage bill last week. This earmark would have massively increased the H-1B cap and could have dealt a death blow to countless engineering careers across the country. With the immigration bill still months away, two senior Democrats stepped into the ring to demonstrate where their allegiance lies. It looks like it may be "curtains" for the engineers of America." Download entire article in PDF format.

"The "good cop, bad cop" routine doesn't just make for good TV, it is also an important negotiating strategy in business and economics. The "good cop" can finesse the adversary and offer up deals and agreements -- while citing the "bad cop" as the reason he must stay firm. Unfortunately, when it comes to America's international trade policy, we have had only the "good cop" president as the negotiator -- and not enough of a "bad cop" in Congress, making sure our presidents hold the line on labor, human rights and environmental issues. The result has been a trade policy too freely giving away access to America's markets and contributing to the loss of millions of jobs." Download entire article by Leo Hindery Jr.and David Sirota in PDF format.

The AFL-CIO, a federation of 54 unions, calls guest-worker programs exploitative and wants immigrants who enter the country to do so as permanent residents, not temporary workers. Eliseo Medina, executive vice president of SEIU, which broke from the AFL-CIO in 2005 over strategic differences, said his union recognizes "the reality of the marketplace and the economy." A guest-worker program could give immigrant workers the right to unionize and eventually petition for citizenship, he said. Download entire article in PDF format.

The Senate, by a 94-0 vote Thursday, inserted a federal contracting ban for businesses that violate immigration laws into a bill that would raise the federal floor on hourly pay from $5.15 to $7.25 over two years. Download entire article in PDF format.

-- "President Bush yesterday called for an increase in the federal cap on H-1B visas, an issue he said he feels "strongly" about and wants to work with Congress to make happen. Bush did not mention H-1B visas in his Tuesday address to Congress, but at DuPont he told employees: "I also want you to know I understand that we need to make sure that when a smart person from overseas wants to come and work in DuPont, it's in our interests to allow him or her to do so." His remarks were included in a transcript of his speech to the DuPont workers. "We've got to expand what's called H-1B visas," said Bush. Download entire article in PDF format.

"In mid-December of 2006 AT&T blocked my newsletter from all of its customers. I found out that AT&T was blocking it mostly by coincidence while talking to a subscriber who asked me why I haven't been publishing newsletters lately. To make a long story short, the reason they weren't getting the newsletters is that someone in India arbitrarily decided to put a spam block on all email content from ZaZona internet servers. I base this accusation on converstations I had with a few AT&T customers that fought this censorship." Download entire Newsletter by Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

The Texas Health and Human Service Commission decided to announce during the holidays that it was curtailing its contract with Accenture to operate privatized enrollment and eligibility call centers. Can't imagine why! Download late breaking news about this BIG CWA Victory in PDF format.

"With more than 5,000 employees in and around Iraq and Afghanistan, DynCorp's paramilitary work force deploys alongside the U.S. military, putting the company at the center of a global debate on the "outsourcing" of war zone jobs that once were the Pentagon's exclusive domain." ----.."contractors currently rank as the second-largest foreign force, behind the U.S. military, serving in Iraq." Download entire story in PDF format.

"If the present situation has taught Americans anything, it is that real reform won’t get done until the Congress and the White House know for sure that their continuance in office is contingent on their doing the right thing for all Americans—not just the paymasters who finance their reelections. How about you, Mr. Lewis? If you figure we don’t get the drift of your column as a paean for open borders, forget it! Our broken school systems and the mounting use by illegal aliens of all our other public services are now well understood by the vast majority of Americans." Download PDF copy of opinion by Donald A. Collins, a freelance writer living in Washington DC and a board member of FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform. His views are his own.

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"Phyllis Schlafly's article is excellent but has one minor shortcoming -- it presents the H-1B debate only in terms of the harms it is doing to engineers and programmers. While techies and scientists make up at least 55% of the available H-1B visas, let's don't forget that there are many other professions affected by the H-1B program such as teachers, accountants, nurses, doctors, and yes, even lawyers." Download entire article from Rob Sanchez Newletter, in PDF format.

"Tracking visitors took on particular urgency after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when it became clear that some of the hijackers had remained in the country after their visas had expired. But in recent days, officials at the Homeland Security Department have conceded that they lack the financing and technology to meet their deadline to have exit-monitoring systems at the 50 busiest land border crossings by next December. Download complete story and GAO Report Summary in PDF format.

"The evidence that illegal immigration and mass immigration are harming our country is overwhelming and irrefutable. Congestion, environment, crime, health care, education - the costs are too high to continue to bear." Download in PDF format.

Anil K Joseph, Beijing, Dec 11: In an apparent bid to challenge India's dominance of the global outsourcing market, China has decided to develop 10 outsourcing base cities by 2010 to transform the Communist giant as the most favoured outsourcing destination of multinationals. The ambitious plan would encourage 100 multinationals to shift offshore outsourcing services to China and foster 1,000 large and medium-sized service outsourcing enterprises, Assistant Minister of Commerce Fu Ziying said. Download World News Report in PDF format.

The report found 2005 median household income showed only a modest gain of $775, after a sharp decline in the early years of the decade. Even so, the gain outpaced national growth. But the state continued to lose jobs from the high-paying manufacturing sector. "Since 1990, we've been losing about 15,000 manufacturing jobs a year on average," said Paul Kleppner, one of the NIU researchers on the report. "This time around, it was only 8,900, so that's something of an improvement." The loss of jobs in the high-paying information sector continued, with 2,000 jobs lost. Since 2001, there has been a nearly 21 percent loss of such jobs. Download entire article in PDF format.

One thing you won't have to worry about this Christmas is having to start the new year with a massive increase of H-1B visas. Despite an intense lobbying campaign by the likes of Bill Gates, Congress didn't pass an H-1B increase or any other escalation in immigration. Bill Gates started lobbying for the Skil bill months ago. He personally went to Washington D.C. twice, and an army of his paid K-Streeters swarmed Capitol Hill to buy votes. Bill Gates was so salient that the Skil Bill was nicknamed "Bill's Skil Bill". In addition Gates spent untold millions to sway Congress. Gates wasn't the only one to get slapped in the face. Hundreds of companies and dozens of think tanks, political action campaigns, and immigration lawyer groups failed to open the floodgates to cheap labor. Congress had one last chance to slip in an increase when both the House and Senate voted in favor of the "United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act", which I call "Nukes for Mangos". There was an attempt to attach an H-1B increase to this bill but that too failed. It's time to celebrate! Download combined stories from Rob Sanchez, Job Destruction Newsletter and Roy Beck, NumbersUSA in PDF format

"Why is Congress now poised to accede to the industry's demands on H-1B visa quotas? As the saying goes, "Follow the money." As Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, said after Congress enacted the H-1B program expansion in 2000, "There were, in fact, a whole lot of [members of Congress] against it, but because they are tapping the high-tech community for campaign contributions, they don't want to admit that in public." Meanwhile, a reasonable H-1B reform bill by New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell is being ignored, not only by the Republicans but also by his fellow Democrats." Download entire opinion by Dr. Norman Matloff in PDF format.

"It wasn't immediately clear whether the Chinese purchaser intends to continue using Hoover's manufacturing operations in the United States, the largest of which is a 850-employee unionized factory in North Canton, Ohio." Download complete article in PDF format.

"High inside congressional sources have just informed our Capitol Hill Team that Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) appears to be on the edge of negotiating an agreement to allow him to slip a bill through the Senate (maybe tonight -- maybe tomorrow) that would entail a gigantic increase in 3-year H-1B visas for tech and other skilled foreign workers and more than a doubling of annual permanent employment-based green cards! Call Listed Senators NOW! Download complete Newsletter from Rob Sanchez, in PDF format. Capitol Switchboard 202-224-3121

"Unless communities demand their congressional representatives add protections to our national trade policy to make sure our workers are not forced to compete with slave labor, middle America will not benefit from the "flat" world, but rather will be flattened altogether." Download entire article in PDF format.

Turki, the Saudi ambassador, said the bilateral education effort grew out of the April 2005 meeting between President Bush and King Abdullah, then the crown prince, in Crawford, Tex., when the two "agreed that they would encourage more Saudis to come to the United States," whether as students, business people or medical patients." Download article from Washington Post in PDF format.

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) website allows people to change the text of the message, so if you want to have some fun, and mess with their heads a little, go to this page, and send your anti H-1B support message to your members of Congress. Download the latest "Job Destruction Newsletter" and follow the instructions at end of Newsletter and send your personal message to this "Lame Duck Congress" NOW!

"I admit to being, among many other things, a proponent of populism. But I do believe my critics should look up the definition before they sling the word at me like a filthy epithet. On second thought, it may be to them, because a populist is, after all, nothing more than "a supporter of the rights and the power of the people." In fact, I'm a damn proud populist." Download entire opinion by Lou Dobbs in PDF format.

"..that before raising the H-1B cap there should be reform of the H-1B system,” said Ronil Hira, vice president for career activities at IEEE-USA, a professional organization representing engineers and computer programmers. The organization, which includes many immigrants among its ranks, is not opposed to legal immigration. But Mr. Hira said that the H-1B visa program, which requires companies to pay foreign workers wages comparable to those they pay American workers, was riddled with loopholes that allow employers to pay subpar wages to immigrants. That, in turn, depresses the wages of American workers, Mr. Hira said." Download entire article in PDF format.(NOTE: BEWARE OF THE "NEW MAJORITY" IN CONGRESS ON THIS ISSUE!)

Download an article how the United Steel Workers Union disrupted an employer's plan to offshore a union members health care to India.

"Free trade" and "globalization" are the guises behind which class war is being conducted against the middle class by both political parties. Patrick J. Buchanan, a three-time contender for the presidential nomination, put it well when he wrote (March 10, 2006, World Net Daily column:) that NAFTA and the various so-called trade agreements were never trade deals. The agreements were enabling acts that enabled U.S. corporations to dump their American workers, avoid Social Security taxes, health care and pensions, and move their factories offshore to locations where labor is cheap." Download entire article by Paul Craig Roberts in PDF format.

"It's a largely hidden problem, this quiet erosion of the middle class. While the chronically poor have been highlighted by the living-wage movement, downwardly mobile members of the middle class get short shrift, even from people of conscience. True, the college educated are a relative elite, constituting 28 percent of the population and earning, on average, a lifetime total of $1 million more than those who lack a degree. But the middle class has been roiled in recent years by what the economists call "income volatility," or sudden changes in fortune, usually caused by layoffs. The discarded shrink off in shame--after all, they must have done something wrong--and vanish from the unemployment statistics by going to Circuit City or Starbucks and taking whatever job they can get. To acknowledge their existence would be to admit that the "knowledge economy" is a delusion and to raise a rude finger in the face of the American dream." Download entire article from "The Nation", in PDF format.

"In the Indian outsourcing industry, attracting and retaining staff is critical to keeping the business growing. To keep its staff, Infosys Technologies pays them the same or, at times, better than the rest of the outsourcing industry in India, and has set up large state-of-the-art facilities that pamper the staff with on-campus beauty salons, shopping arcades, subsidized restaurants, jogging tracks, and large gyms. The job also gives staff an opportunity to be posted abroad, which is a key attraction for a lot of Indian staff. Infosys, like other Indian outsourcing companies, does not have a trade union. The company does not encourage unions, nor have the employees shown any inclination to unionize. Part of the reason is that salaries in the Indian outsourcing industry are already far higher than in other sectors of the Indian economy." Download complete article in PDF format.

"Attorney Frank Nelson is advising companies to break the law in order to circumvent the yearly cap on H-1B visas. Of course like most of our immigration laws, there is almost no enforcement and therefore almost no compliance." Download entire Job Destruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez, in PDF format. NOTE: Readers may contribute online to fund Rob's excellent Newsletter at the bottom of page three.

The Communications Workers of America, several Indian worker organizations and Jobs with Justice have released a first-ever analysis of the call center industry as it affects workers in India and the United States. The report: a "Bi-National Perspective on Offshore Outsourcing: a Collaboration Between Indian and U.S. Labour," provides a detailed look at the phenomenon of offshore outsourcing and its impact on call center workers in India and the United States, who are linked through the growing globalization of this work. Download a summary and copy of the full report, in PDF format.

"The Department of Defense (DoD) is making revolutionary changes to the security guidelines for foreigners working on high-security contracts. At risk: national security—and American workers. Soon, rules will be loosened for foreign scientists and engineers. As a result, foreigners won't have to meet many of the security requirements that have been in place for decades. These radical procedural changes are implemented administratively by bureaucrats who operate outside of the public eye and beyond the purview of Congress.You can send our own comments on the policy proposal no later than October 13, 2006, by going to the Regulations.gov portal. At that website you can click an icon to send a comment and there is another for reading comments. You can also send an e-mail but be sure to (include "DFARS Case 2004-D010" in the subject line). The portal page also gives options for fax, mail, or hand delivering. Last year DFARS answered all of the comments so your input will definitely be considered." Download PDF file for entire article by Rob Sanchez with link to DoD to suubmit your comments.

The GAO found, as Commerce analysts did before them, that offshoring continues to increase in both the semiconductor and software industries. House Science Committee Ranking Member Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN) offered the following comment on the new GAO report: "Offshoring is moving up the technological food chain with more sophisticated jobs and facilities going overseas. For workers this translates into flat job growth and stagnant wages, which is hard on American families and our ommunities. We need to find ways for American workers to compete in the world economy without sacrificing their standard of living. "I applaud the GAO for initiating this study and would welcome additional studies on offshoring trends and their impact on the U.S. workforce. What has been a disappointment to me is the Administration’s and the Republican Congressional Leadership’s lack of interest in understanding what is happening to working Americans. Without that understanding, we cannot develop effective solutions to keep high-wage, high-tech jobs in the United States." Download complete comments and PDF copy of the September 2006 GAO Report.

"Private tutors are a luxury many American families cannot afford, costing anywhere between $25 to $100 an hour. But California mother Denise Robison found one online for $2.50 an hour -- in India." Download entire article in PDF format.

AT&T last week proudly trumpeted the fact that it would end arrangements under which it outsources certain customer-service functions to low-cost, offshore providers. But company insiders claim the telecom company is shipping out significantly more U.S. jobs than it's bringing back and is set to dramatically increase its use of India-based labor. Download entire story in PDF format.

U.S. industry spokespeople say repeatedly that H-1B visa holders are paid the same wages as similarly qualified American citizens. Numerous studies and reports, however, have found this to be untrue. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Vice President Phiroz Vandrevala even admitted that his company enjoys a competitive advantage because of its extensive use of foreign workers in the United States on H-1B and L-1 visas. "Our wage per employee is 20-25 percent lesser than US wage for a similar employee," Vandrevala said. "Typically, for a TCS employee with five years experience, the annual cost to the company is $60,000-70,000, while a local American employee might cost $80,000-100,000. Download entire article in PDF format.

These are trying times for U.S. labor unions. Their strength is on the wane. There are many reasons why. One reason is a fierce attack by employers and the federal government. Some of the attacks are harder to see than others. A provision in the recently passed Senate immigration reform bill expands the number of foreign nurses who may work in the U.S. Lifting this cap on immigration is the idea of Sen. Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican, and backed by the American Hospital Association. The AHA represents hospitals, health care networks and systems. Since the 1990 federal election cycle, the AHA has spent just under $13 million, split about evenly between Democrats and Republicans, to lobby candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Download entire article by Seth Sandronsky and candid insight from Rob Sanchez, Job Destruction Newsletter, in PDF format.

Governor Edward G. Rendell announced today that the commonwealth is taking a new step to ensure that the state is using its resources to support and sustain domestic jobs and promote economic development. The Governor signed an executive order encouraging state contractors to use American workers rather than outsourcing operations overseas. Download entire story in PDF format.

The hack of AT&T's Web site is yet another string of data thefts where a third party vendor dropped the security ball. (Others of recent note include the Dept. of Veteran Affairs and Chevron.) In this case, the breach occurred "not within AT&T's own system but at 'an AT&T vendor that operates an order processing computer' for the online DSL store," Lazarus writes. The names of the vendor was not disclosed. Download two articles about the security breach in PDF format.

India’s economic advancement no longer rests on telephone call centers and computer programmers. Among villages with thatch-roofed huts and dirt roads on the outskirts of this city in central India, John Deere and LG Electronics have recently built factories turning out tractors and color television sets for sale in India and for export to the United States. In Hazira, in northwestern India, where some residents still rely on camels to carry traders’ goods, the Essar Group is making steel to be used for ventilation shafts in Philadelphia, high-rise structural beams in Chicago and car engine mountings in Detroit. Download entire article in PDF format.

Siemens isn't the only company to use a guest worker program to send some of its work out of the country. In the ongoing debate over immigration reform, Emmons and others say that while many worry that guest worker programs for low-skilled foreigners might affect the employment of American workers, tens of thousands of highly skilled foreign guest workers who already enter the country annually are having an impact now. The U.S. has a variety of guest worker programs. They are used to employ everybody from college professors to research scientists to farm workers to maids, cooks and waiters to truck drivers. The most commonly used program is the H-1B visa, a program designed to bring in highly skilled workers, largely computer programmers and high-tech professionals. Download entire article in PDF format.

TrendWatch Graphic Arts today released its special report, “Offshore Printing: The Market for Overseas Print Providers,” which quantifies the extent to which U.S. content creators are outsourcing their print work to overseas providers. The 135-page report pinpoints exactly who is outsourcing print work, who is increasing their outsourcing, and how much work is being outsourced. The report also looks ahead 12 to 18 months and provides a forecast by graphic arts market of how much print work will be sent overseas. Download entire article in PDF format.

"It was with some anxiety that I opened my copy of "Take This Job and Ship It": How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America," Sen. Byron Dorgan's just published populist manifesto. I was worried that, like most books of this genre, it would be a fluffy pastiche of excerpts from Senate floor speeches and op-ed articles, anecdotal rather than analytical.My fears were groundless. "Take This Job and Ship It" is a serious and important book, written by someone who knows as much about the practical workings of the international economy, and the way American legislation and politics shape that economy, as anyone alive. There is nothing slapdash or egotistical about this book." Download book review in PDF format.

Download a recent article from the McKinsey Quarterly about the offshoring of IT infrastructure machines and networks and the people who manage them, in PDF format.

"The police have arrested eight men from Mumbai, formerly Bombay, in connection with the attacks, though no specifics have been disclosed about their possible links to the bombings. Among them are a doctor of traditional Islamic medicine and a largely self-taught software worker who the police said had landed a job with the American database and software company Oracle." Download complete story in PDF format.

Job losses continue in industrial sectors across the U.S. with little response from the Federal Government, noted U.S. House Science Committee Ranking Member Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN). Gordon and fellow Committee Democrats have sought to highlight this growing problem – known as “offshoring” – in an attempt to insure hard-working Americans are kept in the loop on the state of their jobs. Democrats’ efforts have centered on obtaining data compiled in 2004 by analysts at the Technology Administration (TA) within the Department of Commerce. That report, entitled An Overview of Workforce Globalization in the U.S. IT Services and Software, U.S. Semiconductor and the U.S. Pharmaceuticals Industries, provided an in-depth analysis of the ongoing loss of U.S. high-tech jobs and represents the most complete analysis to date on offshoring of U.S. jobs. Until today, the TA analysts' report has never been publicly released. Today we are making available the executive summary and, for comparison purposes, the twelve-page "six-month assessment" the Department of Commerce released last September. Download new summary report from Democratic committee members website. Link to their site is at the very bottom of page 3 of this PDF file.

The following is from a Rob Sanchez Newsletter: "In November of 2004 the omnibus spending bill passed, and with it an amendment dubbed the "L-1 Visa and H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004". The "reform" part of H-1B raised the number of visas that could be issued. International students who earn a Masters or PhD in the U.S. are now eligible to use an H-1B visa that is exempted from the cap. Exemptions of this type have been estimated to be approximately 20,000 per year so effectively the yearly cap was raised from 65,000 to 85,000. The USCIS recently sent out a press release that all of the 20,000 exemptions were gobbled up for fiscal year 2007. The official count of 85,000 H-1Bs doesn't tell the entire story though because additional exemptions will be issued if the alien will be employed at an institution of higher education or a related or affiliated non-profit entity, or at a non-profit research organization or a governmental research organization (like Los Alamos or Lawrence Livermore labs for example). No official count has been made of the total H-1B visas that will be issued in 2007 with all exemptions included. The fact that every visa has been taken will be used as a reason to push the Skil bill along with its massive increase in the H-1B cap. Expect to see a deluge of articles in the mainstream media that use the following rationale: "The fact that employers have used all of the visas is proof that the yearly cap needs to be raised." Download USCIS Press Release in PDF format.

"After nearly two years, Manufacturing & Technology News has obtained a copy of the elusive Commerce Department report on offshore outsourcing of high tech jobs in the information technology, semiconductor and pharmaceutical industries. The report, which was required by an Act of Congress, was to be submitted to Congress in July 2004. But it was never released, due to fears within the Bush administration that the controversial subject would hurt the president's re-election campaign. Senior officials in the Bush administration, including the head of the Council of Economic Advisors, had publicly embarrassed the Bush team with cavalier statements describing offshore outsourcing of high tech jobs as being good for the U.S. economy." Download entire article in PDF format.

"When the H-1B program is completely explained to American voters, they are horrified. However, program expansions were procured by opportunistic companies such as Microsoft, who starting in 1998, paid lobbyists Jack Abramoff and Ralph Reed to collaborate with former Rep. Tom DeLay for expansion. Contrary to federal law, things of value were exchanged for official acts." Download entire LTE by Dr. Gene Nelson, Ph.D. in response to an opinion article written by reporter Bob Mims of the Salt Lake Tribune, in PDF format.

Download PDF copy of Kim Berry, President of the Programmers Guild,letter requesting that the DOL FLC data center export the FY 2007 LCA data to an access database.

"During the last dozen years, many foreign manufacturers rushed to build factories in states like Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, inspiring the sobriquet Detroit South. Now Mexico is eyeing that nickname." Download entire article in PDF format.

Computerworld) In four short years, the current class of college freshmen will be scouting for jobs. In four short years, a significant percentage of the working population will reach retirement age. In fou