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• MARCH 20, 2008 - FAX to USCIS advocating skill rather than lottery
• MARCH 19, 2008 - PR: Programmers Guild calls for end to the H-1b Lottery
• MARCH 12, 2008 - REBUTTAL TO BILL GATES BEFORE CONGRESS
• Guild's January 2008 Sloan West Presentation PPT HTML
• NOV 7, 2007: FAX Congress opposing H-1b increase in HR 4065 (border security)
• OCT 15, 2007: Rebuttal to Congress re IEEE call to expand Green Card program
• Nov 14, 2006 (CNET): Tech asks departing Republicans for favors (SKIL Bill)
• Nov 10, 2006: Lou Dobbs video: Guild on tech labor shortage?
• Nov 2006: Should H-1b employers pay U.S. tuition?
• Sept 2006: Portland Press Herald Exposes Visa Fraud
• Sept 2006: CalTrans discriminates against U.S. workers
• July 2006: Letter to DOL requesting FY 2007 LCA DB
• July 2006: DOL Response: "REQUEST DENIED"
• H-1B SKIL Prevailing Wage is 25% Below U.S. Wage
• June 2006 Lou Dobbs video: John Miano testifies to Congress
• June 2006: Guild Files 300 complaints against H-1B employers
• March 2006: Bill Gates lies to U.S. Congress
• John Miano's Underpaid H-1B Wage Study
• Congressman Pascrell's H.R. 4378 H-1B Reform Bill
• Oct 2005: FAX to Senate - Don't raise H-1B cap (pdf)
• August 26, 2005: Programmers Guild on Lou Dobbs / CNN
• April 2005: Ways employers are abusing the H-1B visa
• November 2004: H-1B and RIR abuse in Sacramento
• November 2004: H-1B abuse in San Francisco
• Silicon Valley LCAs FY-2004 [8meg Access] [1meg tab-delim]
• Profile of Lowest-paying H-1B employers
• Aug 2005: DOL denies U.S. workers 50,000 openings

The Programmers Guild advances the interests of technical and professional workers in information technology (IT) fields. The Programmers' Guild provides a forum where tech workers can speak as a group and be heard; where we can act as a group to advocate our interests; and where we can present our concerns as a group to those whose decisions affect our lives. Our goal is to improve the work and the workplaces of technical professionals across the spectrum of IT fields and disciplines. Technology workers across the board must stand together against the forces that put our careers at risk, such as:

• Replacement by H-1B and L-1 visa workers
• Outsourcing jobs to offshore contractors
• Shifting jobs to overseas facilities
• False claims of a labor shortage in our profession
• Conversion of pensions to cash balance plans
• Age discrimination
• Job ads drafted with intent to exclude U.S. applicants
• Lack of respect for our training, experience, knowledge, and past achievements

Finally, the Programmers Guild assists the growing numbers in our profession who are unemployed.

The right to practice in one's chosen profession is a Constitutional liberty [Gibson v. Berryhill, 411 U.S. 564, 571 (1973)] that is violated by visas that force Americans to train their foreign replacements or otherwise result in displacement by foreign workers.

Please join us.

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