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Programmers Guild Documents

H-1B / Nonimmigrant Visas

John Miano’s Underpaid H-1B study
February 24, 2004: Statement in Support of S494 – PG Member (pdf)
June 12, 2004 – Letter to U.S. Congress: Programmers Guild rebuttal to Compete America’s call for more H-1B (pdf)
November 2002: Brief alleging H-1B is Unconstitutional – Kim Berry (html)
Archive: How to Underpay H-1B workers (html)
Lucent Technologies H-1B LCA Usage – link to h1b.info
FAIR Report “Deleting American Workers” (outstanding 20-page pdf)
Human Rights Discrimination Complaint Template

On April 28th 2003 a petition was submitted to DOL, e-signed by over 150 impacted tech workers, pleading that DOL administer LCAs in manner that will protect U.S. workers. DOL’s May 28th response dodged the issue. On July 10th the DOL sent a second response, acknowledging their failure to protect U.S. workers, and implicating Congress for their flawed legislation:

April 18, 2003 Letter from DOL (PDF) (DOL concedes that LCAs permit displacement of qualified U.S. workers)
May 3, 2003 Petition to DOL
May 28, 2003 Response from DOL
June 2, 2003 Followup to DOL
July 10, 2003 – 2nd DOL Response to Petition (PDF)
Nov 20, 2003 – Complaint about RIR fake job ads to Regional offices (pdf)

Green Card / RIR / Fake job ads

April 7, 2004: Letter to DOL regarding RIR fake job ads (pdf)
August 6, 2004 Followup FOIA Request to DOL (pdf)
October 18, 2004 Spreadsheet summary of DOL RIR in FOIA response (HTML) (Excel)
InsWeb – job ads alleged for RIR green card (InsWeb site) (Craig’s List)

Offshoring

Oct 6, 2004 – Letter to PPIC regarding Governor Schwarzenegger’s apparent double standard – veto AB 1829 but advocating protection for film jobs from offshoring. (pdf)
October 2004 – Comstock’s Business magazine article “Does Offshoring Benefit California” – authored by Kim Berry
May 28, 2004 – Sacramento Business Journal: Labor battles to keep tech jobs (html)
May 23, 2004 – San Diego Union/Tribune: Outsourcing still growing, study finds – quoting PG Board Valerie Chao (html)
May 6, 2004 – Letter to Department of Commerce: India Software Development – Tax and Legal Issues (pdf)
April 29, 2004 – Kim Berry and Natasha Humphries protest Carly Fiorina.
April 13, 2004: Statement supporting AB 1829 to stop offshoring of California State contracts – Kim Berry (html)
April 2004: Challenge to IIE (Institute for International Economics) to defend their study finding that offshoring results in even “more and better” jobs in the U.S.
March 9, 2004: Offshoring statement to CA Senate – Kim Berry (html)
January 4, 2004: LA Times: Offshoring casting a wider net – photo of Kim (html)
2003: Programmers Guild warns of security risk of offshoring: Offshore Security Risk(PDF) IT Disclosure Act (PDF) Security Act Links (html)
December 21, 2003 – Sacramento Bee Letter to Editor – by Kim Berry
July 30, 2003 – SF Chronicle – More Tech Jobs Moving Overseas…

Congressional Testimony

June 18, 2003 Congressman Tancredo Statement to House – “These companies are circumventing the congressionally-mandated safeguards and rules imposed under the H-1b program. And our government knows it. This is not news to anybody inside the Department of Labor or inside the administration. They just do not care.”

April 21, 1998 Congressman Klink testimony to Immigration Subcommittee – “There is a ‘conspiracy’ going on to benefit employers and discriminate against American workers, especially older workers. Its purpose is to make Congress believe that this nation has such a shortage of information technology workers and such an inability to ever meet the demand that the doors to foreign workers must immediately be flung wide open in the form of increased H–1B visas. Otherwise, life on the high-technology planet as we know it will disappear”