The Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO, has just released a blockbuster report entitled "Gaming the System: Guest Worker Visa Programs and Professional and Technical Workers in the U.S" that blows the lid off of the slumdog slave trade.

This is just absolutely epic.

No, really -- this means that the most powerful union in the country is on the case, and whole ****in' H-1B scam is about to be exposed to the rest of the country. We all know techies are aware of the issue, but this report goes into detail about the H-1Bs scams in the teaching profession also. It is not a pretty picture, and all the slumdogs should be scared shitless about this report. It means that no longer will you be able to delude yourself into thinking that most of America views I.T. professionals as indulgent pigs that need to be purged. Now you will incur the wrath of teachers and other STEM professionals.

All of your sordid little schemes will now become part of the public domain. The lies your shills tell about prevailing wages, phony labor shortages, and the inability of Americans to do engineering work are all about to repudiated. Here are some of the highlights that the whole damn country will now be aware of:

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In Cleveland, the school district used TPG to hire new teachers from abroad in 2001 . Under their contract, the Cleveland school system was the employer of record and the new teachers were able to join the Cleveland Teachers’ Union (CTU). The CTU was outraged by what was in the terms of the new teacher contracts with the recruiter. The TPG contract required teachers to pay the company $15,000 if they returned to India in the first year of the contract, $10,000 if they returned in the second year and $7,500 in the third. In response, the school district required that that clause be removed from the contract and also forced TPG to assist the teachers in bringing their families to the United States.
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Guest worker visa programs have allowed companies to outsource jobs. Half of the top 20 companies that used L-1 visas in 2006 were IT outsourcing firms based in India, many of whom are also among the top users of the H-1 B program. Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) has called for reform of both the L-1 and H-1 B visa programs saying these visa programs are “plagued with fraud and abuse and [are] now a vehicle for outsourcing that deprives qualified American workers of their jobs. â€