RE: AS/400 Lobby

[Tim McCarthy <timm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Janet, thanks for sliding your ever-so-slightly slanted political
opinion onto this list. Information is wonderful, selected information
is propaganda. 


TrailBlazer Systems, Inc.
http://www.as400ftp.com
AS/400 Communications & E-Commerce Solutions

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jkrueger@dhagroup.com [SMTP:jkrueger@dhagroup.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 3:58 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: AS/400 Lobby
> 
> Our cash pensions site (http://www.cashpensions.com/uslegislation.htm)
> is
> tracking all of the H1B Visa related legislation, has links to all
> articles
> we've found on the subject, and has sample letters you can send to
> your
> representatives about the issue.  Things I've learned about the issue
> this year
> lead me to believe it is an issue we should all be heavily lobbying
> about.
> 
> For those of you who haven't learned about the issue, H1B Visas are
> granted to
> high technology workers for temporary jobs in the United States.  They
> are
> mostly being used by companies who are concurrently laying off their
> older US
> workers, which is a practice that needs to stop.  Those of us who are
> lobbying
> against raising the ceiling on H1B Visas are NOT against immigration
> in general;
> we just feel that those who we allow to immigrate should be allowed to
> work
> towards full citizenship, should not be treated as slave labor with
> poor
> conditions and low wages, and should not be replacing US workers...
> 
> A recent statement from Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas who has
> sponsored
> much of the H1B Visa legislation, is very telling:  "Although there is
> still no
> objective, credible study that documents a shortage of American
> high-tech
> workers, the INS said recently that the demand for highly skilled
> foreign
> workers is running at least 50,000 ahead of last year.  Such a demand
> can
> indicate an actual shortage of American workers, a spot shortage, a
> preference
> for cheap labor or replacement workers, or something else. But because
> of the
> importance of the high-tech industry to our economy, I think we should
> give the
> industry the benefit of the doubt."
> 
> How many workers have to lose their jobs before industry is reigned
> in???
> 
> Janet Krueger
> Andrews Consulting Group
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Eric Kempter <NOERICK.NORCAL@CLEANCITY.COM> on 06/13/2000 06:44:42 PM
> 
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> 
> To:   "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> cc:    (bcc: Janet Krueger/dhagroup/US)
> Subject:  AS/400 Lobby
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The following was recently print by midrange computing in Monday
> Morning Update
> in reference to AS/400 salaries.
> 
> Even though growth in AS/400 salaries has slowed for many
> job titles and in many regions, the salary growth in the AS/400
> community continues to outstrip inflation. Viall says
> that his best guess, based on current economic conditions
> and the expectation that the economy continues to be
> healthy, is a modest salary growth for 2000, probably in the
> 4 to 6 percent range. There is one big caveat to that growth
> estimate, however. If Congress raises or eliminates the
> ceiling on H1-B visas, all bets are off, and AS/400
> salaries could go flat. Apparently, there is a large talent
> pool of AS/400 programmers in India and a few other
> countries, and if they are allowed to come en masse to
> America, their entrance into the labor pool will definitely
> have an effect on the supply/demand curves for AS/400
> programmers.
> 
> 
> Does anyone know of a website / group that assumes the responsibility
> for
> lobbying on American IT professionals behalf?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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