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In nyc.general TraceyLevin,, <tracey12@swbell.net> wrote:
> 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.

Horseshit.

You'll have a hard time finding someone more conservative than
myself and I'll tell you that it's practically impossible to find
qualified programmers and system admin folks these days.  Demand
simply outpaces local supply.  I've been trying to find experienced
programmers and admin folks for my office for months and have 
seen a veritable rogues gallery of unqualified people.  The good
folks are very well paid and very unavailable.  The few qualified
folks I've interviewed were all foreign nationals that required
our firm to sponsor them for a work visa.

So while I'd like to hire a US citizen, I'm not going to wait
around for our educational system to catch up.  And it's not
like I'm in some farm town.  This is New York City.

Chris

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