Tech workers dealt setback in H-1B case

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Source: Computerworld

Tech workers dealt setback in H-1B case
Appeals court affirms lower court decision, cites lack of 'standing'
By Patrick Thibodeau
July 27, 2009 07:45 PM ET Comments(1)Recommended(2)DiggTwitterShare/Email
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The U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has ruled against the tech workers that have been fighting a federal decision to allow foreign students to work on a student visa from one year to 29 months.

The Programmers Guild and others fighting the student visa extension, approved during President Bush's administration and subsequently backed by President Obama, argued that the extension was a backdoor H-1B increase that has brought more competition to the labor market, hurting wages and job prospects of U.S. workers.

The Bush administration extended the visa in 2008 because of the high demand for H-1B visas at the time, and concern that students, unable to get a visa, would return.



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[Deja Q]

1. Well, US workers don't mind have work to do... but India is moving IT firms to Mexico?

[OhioChick]

2. Fucked over once again...n/t

[nilram]

9. yeah, seems my sex life is improving, but I'm enjoying it less.

fucked over, fucked over, fucked over.

From elected representatives getting VIP treatment on mortgages, to a watered-down health care reform, to importing unqualified foreign workers (and I've seen it done). Some people like it in the butt; I'm not one of them.

[OhioChick]

10. Sorry to hear that you're getting bent over the barrel, too. n/t

[PSPS]

3. This must be even more of that changiness thing.

[Sensible321]

4. Obama Thinks This Is Just Swell Too ...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9131045/White_House_says_U.S._needs_H_1B_visas_to_avoid_competitive_disadvantage_

"In a filing with the appeals court late last month, the Obama administration offered a defense of the H-1B visa program while repeating many of the same arguments used by the Bush administration in defending the ruling in the initial case. "The inability of U.S. employers, particularly in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, to obtain H-1B status for highly skilled foreign students and foreign nonimmigrant workers has adversely affected the ability of U.S employers to recruit and retain skilled worker and creates a competitive disadvantage for U.S. companies," the government argued."

More change we can believe in.

I've been making a list of what Obama has thrown under the bus. So far I show:

1. Won't End the War in Iraq
2. No Accountability for Banksters / Wall Street - they are running his economic team
3. No Single Payer Healthcare
4. No End to Government Spying / Warrantless Wiretapping
5. No End Extraordinary Rendition / Government Secrecy and Censorship
6. No End to DOMA / DADT
7. No End to the War on Drugs
8. No End to the use of Signing Statements
9. An Escalation to the War in Afghanistan
10. Preventing prosecutions for war criminals / torturers - even those who invented/ran the policy at the top.
11. Institute even greater tyranny than even Bush dared suggest via a new "preventive detention" program.
12. Continue Hiding White House Visitor Logs - Secret Meetings - No Transparency in Govt.
13. Supports Increasing the size of the Army by 22,000 (Bush-Obama DefSec Gates proposal "with Pres. Obama's strong support")
(new) 14. Screw American Workers by allowing Foreign-Hires via H-1Bs

[Truth Talks]

5. Bill Gates LOVES H1-B

How many times has he testified in front of Congress in support of H1-B?

In other news, did Gates get stimulus money for that bridge on Microsoft's campus, just as he bilked taxpayers out of money to relocate the headquarters of the Gates Foundation, his "philanthropy"?

Bill Gates: A Critical Biography

[OhioChick]

7. This bridge?

A bridge to Microsoft HQ: Critics slam $11M in federal stimulus for overpass

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3809589

[Norrin Radd]

6. k

[ChromeFoundry]

8. ever get that feeling that someone is throwing knives at you? n/t