Some of you may be interested in signing an H-1B related petition

[Richard Kolb II]

I will sign that, I will also add that I am a SW Engineer with 16 years of
experience, I've been laid off twice in that least few years, both times my
job being outsourced to India. I also think that we're not going to get
much traction, for the same reasons that David mentioned.

On a side note, my father was also working for IBM around the time they
started outsourcing his job he took an early retirement.

Rich


Richard Kolb II

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:46 PM, David Hardy <belovedbold357 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The malice-aforethought intent, in my opinion, is to actually put American
> citizens out of work;  I was laid off over two years ago from IBM and our
> jobs were offshored to India and Slovakia.  Unemployed ever since, other
> than occasional contract and temp gigs, despite twenty years of solid IT
> experience across multiple hw and sw platforms, most recently RHEL and
> CentOS.
>
> And the government is evidently in bed with the corporations who engage in
> this practice.  Asking them to investigate is like unto asking the police
> to investigate one of their seemingly endless brutality and/or civil rights
> violations.
>
>
> "The petition is directed at U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and asks
> her to launch a formal investigation into the H-1B visa program." - See
> more at:
> http://insight.ieeeusa.org/insight/content/policy/255071#sthash.SWgEL8YT.dpuf
>
> Somehow I don't feel confident that the AG's office will lift a finger for
> us, other than the usual mealy-mouthed PR platitudes and corporate-written
> bromides.
>
> Meanwhile they keep telling us how hard it is to find qualified American
> workers to do these incredibly complex and intricate jobs.
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> IEEE has an article here about abuse of the H-1B visa, putting citizens
>> out of work.  It links to a petition asking the government to investigate.
>>
>> See the article here:
>> http://insight.ieeeusa.org/insight/content/policy/255071
>>
>> Bill
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