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  • Fed OPT Program Hits Record High; U.S. Worker Displacement Unabated Fed OPT Program Hits Record High; U.S. Worker Displacement Unabated
    Optional Practical Training (OPT), a temporary employment program for foreign undergraduate and grad students on F-1 visas, is the vehicle that corporate America, and more specifically the IT industry, uses to circumvent the 85,000 H-1B visa cap and to deny jobs to or displace U.S. tech workers. Its usage has reached an all-time high. Recently, the ...
  • Protect U.S. Tech Workers From The Lame Duck Congress Protect U.S. Tech Workers From The Lame Duck Congress
    We urge Congress to keep country caps in order to preserve the integrity of our immigration system and our national policy of diversity therein. We oppose HR392/S281 the “Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act” (hereinafter referred to as “this bill”). It is neither fair, nor is it for the high-skilled, nor is it only for employment-based ...
  • Is Artificial Intelligence leading to Job Displacement Is Artificial Intelligence leading to Job Displacement
    Artificial intelligence has the potential to displace US workers and/or create new and more lucrative jobs. What will it be. Kevin Lynn in his address to the California Democratic Party’s Business and Professionals Caucus gives his take on the present and the future with regard to information technolgy workers and workers in general.
  • California’s Worst Wildfires Must be a Wake-Up Call California’s Worst Wildfires Must be a Wake-Up Call
    For California natives like me, the wildfires are a real gut punch. As of this writing, the wildfires are the deadliest in the state’s history with 63 fatalities, and more than 600 people are unaccounted for. More than 10,000 buildings are gone, and more than 230,000 acres have burned. In the now obliterated community of Paradise, ...
  • TATA vs. Buchanan Trial – Coverage From November 14, 2018 TATA vs. Buchanan Trial – Coverage From November 14, 2018
    This is our third day of coverage of the Buchanan vs. TATA Consultancy Services workplace discrimination trial. And once again Rolf gives us a fantastic recap of the day’s proceedings that included testimony from more witnesses from the plaintiffs as well as a TATA manager called on to validate the veracity of documents produced to ...
  • TATA vs. Buchanan Trial – Coverage From November 13, 2018 TATA vs. Buchanan Trial - Coverage From November 13, 2018
    This is U.S. Tech Workers second day covering the TATA Consultancy Services vs. Buchanan workplace discrimination trial taking place in Oakland, CA. As we did last week, Rolf provided an overview of the day’s proceedings and highlights of the key testimony. Today the Jury heard from witnesses that were involved in TATA’s Human Resources Dept. ...
  • After Midterms, U.S. Tech Workers Still Friendless in Congress After Midterms, U.S. Tech Workers Still Friendless in Congress
    In Kansas’ Third District, IT has a strong presence with Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Over time, since taking office in 2011, the district’s soon-to-be former representative, Kevin Yoder, fell in love with the H-1B employment-based visa. This year Yoder sponsored H.R. 392 which would have removed country caps, or limits, on potential green card holders. Getting ...
  • U.S. Tech Workers Coverage of The TATA Consultancy Services Trial U.S. Tech Workers Coverage of The TATA Consultancy Services Trial
    Watch the video coverage of the first day of the Tata Consultancy trial
  • Women In Tech Talk About Women In Tech and The Google Walk Out Women In Tech Talk About Women In Tech and The Google Walk Out
    Kevin Lynn hosts a panel discussion with four women who combined have more than 80 years experience in the tech industry. Today’s panel started with a discussion of the recent Google walkout. However, it quickly morphed into an industrywide expose of threats to workers that transcended gender issues. Interestingly, it is both men and women ...
  • Midterms – A Cautionary Tale for 2020 Midterms – A Cautionary Tale for 2020
    As I write this week’s blog, most of the votes from yesterday’s elections have been tabulated and, with one or two exceptions, the winners declared. For the second election in a row, I have not been surprised by the results. Although the Democratic Party squeaked out a majority of seats in the House, it was ...
  • Back in the Headlines Again: Birthright Citizenship Back in the Headlines Again: Birthright Citizenship
    If President Trump’s promise to end birthright citizenship does nothing else, it will spark the long overdue debate about the constitutional legality of conferring citizenship to all children born on U.S. soil including those delivered by unlawfully present mothers. Birthright citizenship, also referred to as jus soli or “right of the soil,” has been for decades the improper ...
  • Connecticut ‘For Sale’ Signs Are Truly a Sign of the TimesConnecticut ‘For Sale’ Signs Are Truly a Sign of the Times
    Shocked by the number of “For Sale” signs lining the streets leading to my home, a friend visiting from Denver recently asked, “What’s going on? What’s wrong with Connecticut?” He then went on to draw the stark comparison between Colorado and Connecticut: “In Denver, the houses sell in hours of being listed, and the job ...
  • Verizon Lays Off 44,000; American Workers Left in LurchVerizon Lays Off 44,000; American Workers Left in Lurch
    The headline financial news story of late is Verizon’s announcement that it offered a voluntary severance package to about 44,000 employees or about one-third of its workforce. But the subtitle is equally disturbing. Verizon will transfer more than 2,500 jobs – some insiders peg the total at closer to 5,000 – to India-based Infosys as ...
  • Mr. Furst Goes to WashingtonMr. Furst Goes to Washington
    Recently I was in Washington, D.C., to exercise two of the five freedoms in the First Amendment: freedom of speech and “applying to the Legislature … for redress of … grievances.” My grievance is that I have been displaced and/or bypassed by cheap foreign labor dumping, and having a great education and great work experience is ...
  • California, Once ‘Eternal Verdure,’ Now Overpopulated Nightmare California, Once ‘Eternal Verdure,’ Now Overpopulated Nightmare
    In 1845, Lansford W. Hastings, best known for developing the Hastings Cutoff, a travelers’ shortcut through what is today Utah, wrote The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California. Hastings’ effusive portrait included this California description: “Here perpetual summer is in the midst of unceasing winter; perennial and never-ending autumn stand side by side, and towering ...
  • Hilarie Gamm Talks: Women in U.S. Tech Hilarie Gamm Talks: Women in U.S. Tech
    Recently on Jim Blasingame’s Small Business Advocate Show, Hilarie Gamm talked about the U.S. tech industry, immigration, and how women professionals have fared in the 21st century. With 60% of college-educated, white women disapproving of President Trump’s policies, according to a new Quinnipiac poll, Gamm provided some backbackdrop how the current administration can win over this demographic.  ...
  • Response to Miriam Jordan’s NY Times Article – One Face of Immigration Response to Miriam Jordan’s NY Times Article – One Face of Immigration
    In response to your September 16 article:  One Face of Immigration in America Is a Family Tree Rooted in Asia You got one thing right. “Trump is the first of any modern day president to advocate for reducing legal immigration”… and because of it, it’s my contention that’s why he won the election.  If Trump wants to ...
  • Dudeski Writes his Congressman Dudeski Writes his Congressman
    Following up from the phone calls he made a couple weeks ago, Dudeski wrote a long letter to his congressman about the consequences of H.R. 392 on U.S. Tech workers.  We are posting a link to a copy of the letter so as to provide others a template for writing similar letters to their representatives. ...
  • Doubters Challenge Report that Illegal Immigration is Twice as High as Traditional Estimates Doubters Challenge Report that Illegal Immigration is Twice as High as Traditional Estimates
    “The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States: Estimates based on demographic modeling with data from 1990 to 2016,” a new study published in the peer-reviewed science journal, PLOS ONE, found that the illegal immigration population in the United States has been, for years, dramatically underestimated. Using “standard demographic principles of inflow and outflow” and ...
  • Fed Chair Calls Slow Wage Growth ‘A Puzzle,’ Ever-Expanding Foreign-Born Force Unaddressed Fed Chair Calls Slow Wage Growth ‘A Puzzle,’ Ever-Expanding Foreign-Born Force Unaddressed
    In its new study, “Tapping the Skills of Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States,” the Migration Policy Institute stated that, according to economists, by the end of this decade, the nation will have a 5 million shortage of job-qualified persons with post secondary educations. Immigrants’ rising education levels might, wrote MPI, represent a great ...
  • Countless Employment-Based Visas Undermine American Workers Countless Employment-Based Visas Undermine American Workers
    Dozens of federally issued employment-based visas granted to foreign workers offer multiple opportunities to deny Americans a job or to displace them from the ones they’re lucky enough to hold. In Congress, the 85,000 annual H-1B visas are the most hotly debated, in part because over the years the total H-1B working population has soared to ...
  • Dudeski Calls Congress On Behalf of U.S. Tech Workers Dudeski Calls Congress On Behalf of U.S. Tech Workers
    Below are the notes that were taken by Stephen Pushor (aka Dudeski), USTW, Director of Operations for the DC Area from his calls to the House Rules Committee Members regarding H.R. 392.  You are probably all too aware that this bill was inserted into an appropriations bill as an amendment by Congressman Kevin Yoder.  Dudeski’s ...
  • Kevin Talks to John Miano About The Details of H.R. 392 Kevin Talks to John Miano About The Details of H.R. 392
    I sat down with John Miano to learn more about the Numerical Limitation to Any Single Foreign State amendment Kansas Congressman, Kevin Yoder snuck into the DHS appropriations bill on July 25th. This amendment is bad news for U.S. tech workers and John Miano gives the details.
  • Prioritizing Hiring American Doctors Should be the Standard Prioritizing Hiring American Doctors Should be the Standard
    Outsourcing U.S. jobs to foreign markets followed by replacing local workers with foreign laborers has been the reality of the U.S. labor market for almost two decades. Manufacturing was the start of outsourcing, and then employers moved on to back-room corporate operations such as credit card processing and call centers for customer service. This was followed ...
  • AMA Wants Foreign Doctors, Not Qualified Americans AMA Wants Foreign Doctors, Not Qualified Americans
    Last month, the American Medical Association issued a press release that urged U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to process more H-1B visas, thereby allowing more nonresident physicians to come to the United States to practice medicine. The AMA claimed that a shortage of nonresident physicians who help fill care gaps in medically underserved regions diminishes overall ...
  • Prioritizing Hiring U.S. Doctors Should be the Standard Prioritizing Hiring U.S. Doctors Should be the Standard
    Outsourcing U.S. jobs to foreign markets followed by replacing local workers with foreign laborers has been the reality of the U.S. labor market for almost two decades. Manufacturing was the start of outsourcing, and then employers moved on to back-room corporate operations such as credit card processing and call centers for customer service. This was followed ...
  • High-Tech Companies’ Lobbying Efforts in Full Gear for Foreign Workers High-Tech Companies’ Lobbying Efforts in Full Gear for Foreign Workers
    A telling Mercury News story pits high-tech industry leaders against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and its Director Francis Cissna. According to the story, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff are among the many tech industry executives pushing back against the Trump administration’s efforts to tighten H-1B visa regulations and possibly cut their ...
  • Labor Day is No Celebration for Struggling Americans Labor Day is No Celebration for Struggling Americans
    Trying to figure out how many employment-based visas the State Department issues is a dizzying task. The major categories include the H, temporary workers; the TN, NAFTA professionals; the P, athletes, artists and entertainers; the L, intercompany transfer; the O, extraordinary ability, and on and on. In most cases, spouses and minor children can enter with ...
  • Tech Worker Hilarie Gamm Responds On Employment Visas Tech Worker Hilarie Gamm Responds On Employment Visas
    We had the pleasure of spending some time this week  with author and tech worker Hilarie Gamm. Hilarie is the author of the book Billions Lost, a book the chronicles the demise of US tech workers. Today we discussed the recent Business Round Table Letter that was sent by many of the nation’s CEOs to ...
  • GOP Swamp Alligators Busy Subverting U.S. Workers GOP Swamp Alligators Busy Subverting U.S. Workers
    From an unlikely place, deep red Kansas, comes a plot to add to the cheap labor workforce. In 2016, President Trump carried Kansas by more than 20 points. Nevertheless, Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder, from Kansas’ 3rd District, joined up with other cheap labor addicts to subvert American workers. Yoder, hellbent on creating maximum wreckage on U.S. ...