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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.  ...

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 ...

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. ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The attached pdf is the transcript of conference call that saw a lot of gloating over the poison pill Congressman Yoder slipped into the Homeland Security appropriations bill that would end employment visa/green card country caps.  This is an obvious quid pro quo to the Indian lobbies at the expense of U.S. tech workers. IV August ...

In 2007, the Pittsburgh-based law firm Cohen & Grigsby hosted an immigration seminar in which it advised employers how to get around hiring American tech workers, and instead hire foreign national H-1B visa holders. The videotaped session showed a Cohen & Grigsby director outlining the ways tech job postings could be written to discourage American candidates and ...

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used more from nature than our planet can renew in the entire year. We are using 1.7 Earths. We use more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate due to overfishing, overharvesting forests, and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than ecosystems can absorb. This video ...

Humanity is using more resources per year than ever, and it’s getting to the point where the Earth can barely keep up. Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can produce in that year. It is a date calculated by the Global ...

With a strong economy and many technology jobs, Massachusetts is shouldering the burden of tech layoffs, outsourcing, and offshoring. Upon initial inspection, the Massachusetts economy is thriving. Houses sell in just days, recent college grads can always find work in the state’s many retail outfits when white-collar professional work is sparse. The state also ranks ...

The following statement was issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) regarding committee approval of the FY 2019 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill, which contained a provision blocking the Attorney General’s recent asylum reforms and removed per country caps from legal immigrant admissions: “What happened in yesterday’s markup can ...

I had an opportunity this past weekend to spend some time with Virgil Bierschwale a displaced tech worker who runs “Keep America At Work”, a site dedicated to helping other displaced tech workers find jobs. For the past couple years Virgil has been getting by as Janitor but that hasn’t kept him down. Every week ...

You notice that people from India are poking around your workplace—and their numbers are growing. It is time to smell the coffee and realize that you and your coworkers are about to get the H-1Boot. What should you do now? Time and again we hear of situations where entire IT departments are laid off, outsourced, and in ...

My FAVORITE retailer, TJX, parent company to TJMaxx, Marshalls, and Home Goods is selling out its American roots, and sending tech jobs offshore. Cognizant, the largest H1B visa procurement company in the U.S. in 2017, is replacing TJX tech staff as the vendor of choice to supplant the U.S. IT workforce. As local news reports,   the ...

Suddenly, emails are pouring in! On April 3, 2017, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) established an internet hotline to inspire individuals to report H-1B abuses and fraud. And at the end of its first year, it saw quite a bit of action. The Fraud Detection and Nationals Security Directorate (FDNS) encouraged American workers and overseas ...

Steve Bannon Speaks the Truth on Tech Guest Worker Programs

On May 10, 2018, John Miano, co-author of the book Sold Out conducted a fireside chat with small group of activists at the home of Paul Hess in King County, Washington. For almost 2 hours John spoke on the topic of guest worker visas to include H-1B and OPT. This video is a snippet from ...

Since the Immigration Act of 1990 created the H-1B visa, the debate surrounding its value has been intense. Supporters contend that H-1Bs are needed to fill an acute talent shortage among U.S. tech workers; critics maintain that the visa cravenly serves to import cheap overseas labor that eventually displaces Americans or blocks qualified domestic candidates ...

With April 3 the Opening Day, so to speak, for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to accept fiscal year 2018 H-1B visa petitions, how this affects displaced and unemployed American tech workers is a timely subject. Congress established a 65,000 H-1B visa cap per fiscal year; an advanced degree cap exemption will go to an additional ...