Just Turned 35? Too Old to Work in Tech
The H-1B visa is acknowledged as the greatest contributor to American IT job displacement. Last year, several stories about the H-1B’s deleterious... Read More
At UCSF, a Too-Familiar Tale; American Workers Fired, H-1Bs Hired
Recently, the University of California, San Francisco campus fired 49 information technology workers, and will replace them with foreign-born H-1B visa holders.... Read More
IT Tycoons Take on Trump
Silicon Valley is angry at President Donald Trump. First, after putting piles of cash at the feet of Hillary Clinton, tech executives... Read More
Obama Comes to My Hometown, Talks Tech, Fouls up Traffic
At a one-day conference in Pittsburgh called the White House Frontiers Conference, President Barack Obama announced that he will allocate more than... Read More
Bipartisan Legislation Introduced to Fix American Job-Killing Visa Mess
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) introduced a long overdue bill to close the multiple loopholes in the H-1B and L-1 visas.... Read More
Women Excluded from H-1B Bonanza
Feds are tight-lipped about shortage of female visa recipients. The debate about H-1B visa hiring has a fascinating secondary dispute. On April... Read More
Damning New Challenger, Gray Report Destroys Tech Lobby ‘Shortage’ Claim
In a recent press release, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a global consultancy firm, wrote that in 2015 the U.S. technology sector –... Read More
H-1B Visa Program Called ‘Tremendous Threat to American Professionals’
Now I know why my son, an engineering graduate, struggled so long to find his first job! In December 2014, I was... Read More
Economic Policy Institute Demands Labor Secretary Investigate SoCal Edison H-1B Scandal
The Economic Policy Institute has joined outraged Americans in the quest for justice on behalf of the laid-off Southern California Edison (SCE)... Read More
H-4 Visa Holders Approved for Employment; More American Job Displacement
The Obama administration has delivered another setback to the more than 90 million Americans not attached to the workforce. On February 24,... Read More