Re:Nothing new here, sadly (Score 1)

Totally agree with you, this is a PR stunt by ProgrammersGuild. Read the following: "A handful of groups do oppose more green cards for the highly educated. Kim Berry, president of the 1,500-member Programmers' Guild, argues that giving green cards to the hundreds of thousands of people in the backlog will displace Americans and drag down wage levels. He points out that employment in the tech sector has been largely stagnant since 2000, adding only a net 262,700 jobs since then to bring the total to 3.7 million. Adding in another 315,000 people from the green-card queue would flood the market with labor, he says, with many of the newcomers willing to work for less. "For a young programmer coming from India, a $40,000 salary might be fine," says Berry. "But it's not going to be enough for an American trying to raise a family in San Jose." from http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/conten t/jun2007/db20070620_915353.htm?campaign_id=rss_da ily The Programmers' Guild's job is to try to keep as many Americans employed in these obsolete positions even though, these jobs are being outsourced already. Yeah this is definitely a way to keep efficiency high. Which is why Capitalism works. Notice how they say the Law firm does not talk about salary, well to meet PERM requirements, the employee's salary needs to meet 100% of the prevailing wage. http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/wages.cfm So go take your propaganda elsewhere ProgrammersGuild.