The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) is a little known law that is starting to receive massive attention in the H-1B/L-1 outsourcing world. TVPA is a U.S. Code that addresses “trafficking in persons, also known as involuntary servitude/slavery or forced labor. These provisions are contained in Chapter 77 of Title 18 and are sometimes referred to generally ...

Kevin sits down with veteran tech worker, Adele Smith to discuss this week’s announcement by Intel that it is outsourcing much its internal technical and administrative functions to Infosys, an Indian outsourcing firm well know to employ H-1B visa holders to displace American workers. This will impact jobs around the country and in Costa Rica. ...

The Texas Workforce Commission has proposed a new rule allowing gig-economy, app-based employers like Lyft, Uber and Handy to classify their workers as “independent contractors,” stripping them of basic labor rights like unemployment insurance, and shifting the payroll tax burden from the company to the gig workers. While other states’ legislatures have initiated similar laws, the ...

March 15, 2019   The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20500 Subject:  Meeting Request Dear Mr. President: During your presidential campaign, you said that your top priority was to put America and Americans first when it comes to jobs and immigration. This is why I, along with enough citizens to ensure your victory, voted for you. So it was ...

Americans need to know about a couple of little-known programs that allow foreign students on F-1 visas to get tax-free jobs. They’re “little known” to Americans being injured by the programs, but not to the businesses and F-1s exploiting the windfall. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website boasts: “The United States allows eligible international ...

Much media coverage has been given to Amazon’s search for a U.S. city to establish a second headquarters. After much fanfare and anticipation, including the hope of politicians in the large Midwestern city where I live, Amazon, in November 2018, decided to “split” its second headquarters between two cities: Arlington, Virginia (the Washington, D.C. metroplex ...

Foreign workers are continuing to make significant employment and job gains over native-born Americans, newly released Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals. In December 2018, foreign-born worker employment increased 5 percent compared to the same time last year, adding an additional more than 1,300 workers. Meanwhile, native-born Americans saw an employment increase of only 1.2 percent ...

Robert Stark talks to Kevin Lynn about the swamp swallowing Donald Trump on immigration. Kevin Lynn is executive director of Institute for Sound Public Policy and founder of US Tech Workers and Doctors without Jobs. IFSPP exists to protect American workers from unemployment and wage suppression caused by unfair labor and trade practices, including importation of large numbers of foreign workers who are subject ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has settled its first action involving H-1B visa holders brought under the Civil Rights Division’s Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative. The DOJ settled over allegations that a Virginia investment professionals association, CFA Institute (CFAI), discriminated against U.S. workers by preferring to hire foreign H-1B visa workers. Grassroots groups seeking to raise awareness of visa abuse ...

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont recently named Indra Nooyi, the former Pepsi CEO, to his team of economic advisors to bring jobs to Connecticut, but is she the right one to trust with that task? Is the opulent outsourcer, pocketing $31.1 million in total compensation during her last year at Pepsi, really one to commiserate with Connecticut’s tech ...

What is Buckley Carlson, Tucker Carlson’s brother doing in bed (figuratively speaking) with groups that displace American workers?

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Response to the Trump Administration H-1B Reforms President Trump campaigned on a platform of prioritizing the interests of our nation and American citizens when it comes to national security, trade, immigration and jobs. For this American tech worker, it was thrilling to see President Trump, policy advisor Stephen Miller and Disney screwed-by-Iger tech workers at several ...

Connecticut, along with Texas, Indiana, Rhode Island and North Carolina, recently entered into agreements with Infosys, an Indian outsourcing company, wherein the states promised to give Infosys state grants or tax breaks in return for the company’s promise to create certain jobs. The agreements have been questioned by various American worker groups concerned that those ...

You’ve heard it before: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Connecticut may be in its “shame on me” moment. State leaders have made a deal with Infosys, India’s second largest IT exporter. Connecticut is giving away American taxpayer money in return for promises to create jobs. The question is: Who will ...

Trump Clueless on Legal Immigration, Indifferent to American Tech Workers’ Plight

Laura and her husband were living the American Dream. After earning a bachelor’s degree in business administration and securing a job with a reputable Fortune 500 company, Laura began a rewarding career as a business analyst with a world-renowned telecom giant. She earned great yearly performance reviews, and she was enjoying the hard work and camaraderie that comes ...

This is the first of what will hopefully be several “Tips for Tech Workers” in which we discuss best practices for organizing at the local and national level. Steve Lamb, a long time activist and an elected from an unincorporated city in Los Angeles County shares his thoughts on effective organizing with some hard hitting, ...

H.R. 392 is Dead in The Water for 2018

In what may be the most defiant lame duck plot in recent history, outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan has, mostly under the radar, put forward a plan to make thousands of U.S. jobs available to Irish nationals. Illegal immigration is rarely associated with the Irish, but some have been living in the United States unlawfully for ...

When it comes to the Hollowing Out of the U.S. Middle Class, Hilarie Gamm sets the record straight where others ignore the obvious The reality is – robots and automation actually create jobs, create efficiencies and improve dangerous working conditions to the benefit of all.  Economic expansion and improved quality are direct results of increased automation ...

We walked the halls of the Senate educating aides on the harm that will be done should H.R. 392 be attached as a rider to the DHS appropriations bill. We had the opportunity to sit with Aakash Singh, Counsel for Senator Grassley of Iowa. Aakash informed us that Grassley will fight any attempt at rider ...

In a surprising departure from Japan’s low-immigration history, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently agreed to accept more foreign nationals into the country’s labor force. As Abe’s bill moves through Japan’s parliament, promises abound to keep strict controls to assure that unskilled migrants will return home when their five-year visas expire. Skilled workers, who can bring ...

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. workers. Its usage has reached an all-time high. Recently, the Institute ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...