Thread: San Diego tech companies can't fill thousands of jobs

And I am not trying to insult waiters or waitresses. Any honest work is honorable. I wait tables on and off....to make ends meet. Just saying that many college educated people are doing work they could have done with no college education. And this situation is directly related to our government giving out worker visas to foreigners.

Washington area is beginning to bounce back from recession

http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-1184560.html

Pittsburgh ranks among top in technology job growth

http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-1184565.html

Tech Job Market Improving

By Brittany Ballenstedt 02/09/11 12:33 pm ET

The job market is improving at least for technology professionals, and a new wave of opportunities has opened up in every metropolitan market, according to this month's issue of the Dice Report.

The number of jobs posted on Dice since January indicates that technology professionals can find interesting job opportunities in cities like Detroit, Miami, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Detroit currently has 800 available tech positions -- nearly double the number posted last year -- and tech pros can expect to earn an average of $71,445 per year in the Motor City, up 2 percent from just one year ago. Job opportunities in Pittsburgh are up 45 percent over last year, and tech pros there can expect to take home an average annual salary of $65,000.

Still, the highest demand for technology professionals is in the Washington, D.C. area, where job postings are up 33 percent over one year ago. Job postings in the New York/New Jersey area also are up 18 percent over last year, and available jobs in Silicon Valley rose 40 percent over last year, Dice found.

http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2011/ ... test_posts

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Washington area is beginning to bounce back from recession

http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-1184560.html

I have no doubt that we are coming out of recession....no doubt whatsoever. I can tell when I go to work in the morning that the bus is PACKED. Just a few months ago it would be a third or half empty during the commute hour. The worst is over. But still there is the problem of worker visas. Now that the economy is recovering, are they going to start giving out more worker visas? Or will they finally let Americans do the jobs that Americans will do, and do the best?

That is exactly the point, Red: in 2001 (a bad year for jobs overall), 9 out of every 10 tech jobs that managed to get created went to a foreign worker on a visa. It's important that the recovery is a recovery for AMERICANS, not merely an excuse to bring in more docile, desperate foreign workers. You can't trust a job ad, we learned back then. Many of them were duplicates, posted by contingent hiring firms looking for the commission. Many were PERM ads written to justify keeping a foreign worker who was already in the job. And the companies were all crying that they couldn't find qualified Americans.

No more H-1B work Viasa are available for 2011.

USCIS Reaches FY 2011 H-1B Cap

Jan. 27, 2011

WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2011. USCIS is notifying the public that yesterday, Jan. 26, 2011 . . .

The final receipt date is the date on which USCIS determines that it has received enough cap-subject petitions to reach the limit of 65,000 . . .

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-226240-visa.html