Documents
Programmers Guild Documents
H-1B / Nonimmigrant Visas
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:
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Green Card / RIR / Fake job ads
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”
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