Thread: NumbersUSA Action Alert: Blast Rep. Lofgren

Yep, done. Thanks.

Here's some talking points I include in this last round of H-1b faxes/calls:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1205986 ... =googlenew

Want More Engineers? Provide Jobs for Them
March 20, 2008; Page A17

In his presentation to Congress last week, Bill Gates once again cited the need to improve the American educational system, to strengthen math, science and engineering curriculums, and to funnel more students into those disciplines ("Last Call? Gates Pushes Globalism in Remarks," Technology Journal, March 13).

However, the declining number of students enrolled in technical programs has nothing to do with the quality of our schools or the natural talents and interests of our students. It has everything to do with the massive loss of domestic technology jobs to outsourcing, offshoring and the importation of foreign technology workers through the H1-B visa program. It has everything to do with vanishing opportunities, declining compensation and decreasing job security.

Can bright, motivated students be blamed for shying away from fields with such bleak futures? Can parents, teachers and counselors be blamed for guiding young Americans into more promising careers? The bottom line is that when executives like Bill Gates complain that the U.S. isn't producing enough scientists and engineers, what they really mean is that the U.S. isn't producing enough scientists and engineers happy to work for $7 per hour.

Mark Kimelheim
Jamison, Pa.

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1. Sona Shah:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714614/posts

Calls an employer about an IT job with US House listening in on conversation, reported the following exchange with the recruiter:

'Hi. I'm an American citizen. I'm looking for a job,'" Shah recalled. "They said, 'No, that job's been set aside for an H-1B employee.'" The staffers at the legislative briefing were stunned. "There were audible gasps," Shah said. Those are the kind of tactics the 34-year-old Montclair woman has used in her crusade to reform the H-1B visa classification, which she says U.S. employers have used to turn Indian immigrants into underpaid indentured servants -- and to deny American citizens jobs.


2. Kevin Flanagan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Flanagan

Kevin Flanagan was a computer programmer who worked for The Bank of America in Concord, California, USA.

Flanagan committed suicide in the parking lot of Bank of America's Concord Technology Center after he and colleagues were laid off in April 2003. The lay-offs were due to the company outsourcing many computer-related jobs to less expensive workers, mostly from India.


3. Larry Lebowitz, Attorney with Cohen & Grigsby (Pittsburgh PA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR1Jke2NWTA

Saying during his presentation to employers seeking to avoid hiring Americans...."Our goal is clearly, not to find a qualified and interested US worker"...


Let me conclude with one final point:

How is it 'permissible' to refuse to hire Americans for IT jobs, when clearly, discrimination by national origin is explicitly forbidden under US Civil Rights Laws (EEOC)? (Reference: http://www.eeoc.gov/origin/index.html )

I am extremely disappointed you have chosen to do the cheap labor bidding for ultra wealthy corporate CEOs over the interests of ordinary working people like myself. I will let all people I know in the industry of your failures in this regard as well. I will also work to see you are defeated should you choose to run again.

Sent several faxes from numbers today!!

Also sent the article about the fence in Egypt to about 15 Senators!!

Thanks for faxing everyone, and for the talking points Phred.

Done!