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Charles Packer wrote:
> 
> In article <36166af6.270677307@news.dgsys.com>, Jeff Kirk wrote:
> >       Recently it has been reported that the Congress and Senate are
> >currently reviewing a bill to increase the number of immigrant workers
> >into the U.S. in an effort to lessen the burden on the computer
> >industry, due to a lack of qualified professionals in that arena.
> 
> I'm a middle-aged computer programmer who changed jobs recently
> after 14 years with my previous employer. I've observed that,
> yes, employers want younger, cheaper talent. (But sometimes they
> end up hiring two young programmers to do the job that one
> experienced programmer could do.) But unionizing isn't the
> answer. Unions are for industries where wages truly are low,
> as in factories, or where the wages are high but the job is
> highly regimented, as with airline pilots.

  I think the solution may be somewhat different.  
  First, we who are computer literate should be in constant contact
  with our elected officials.  We need to be well known around their 
  office for being very nice, and very concerned about legislatoin.

  Next, when IBM, or any other company begins to hire imported, low wage
programmers, etc., we need to make it known around the net that IBM is
undermining Americans by hiring from outside the country when there are
many here who can do the job.
 
  Maybe too it is time for some public protesting in front of the home
offices of these companies.  The small savings they achieve by hiring
foreigners could easily be offset by a large amount of negative press!

  We need to impress the public with this information, and explain how
UNCONCERNED these companies are about showing support for American
employes who can do the work they need to have done.

  But, if we sit on the sidelines and never protest about actions like
these, the multinational, unpatriotic companies will always avoid
showing any responsibility to American society from which most of these
companies originated.