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programmers guild february 2008 programmers guild the programmers guild advances the interests of u s technical and professional workers in information technology it fields and opposes the transfer of u s jobs technology and infrastructure overseas tuesday february 5 2008 businessweek exposes how industry really uses h 1b workers listening to compete america one would think that h 1b workers are the best and brightest in the world contributing to u s global competiveness but as the 1 31 08 businessweek article are h 1b workers getting bilked exposes h 1b are being used by indian consulting firms to bring in cheap labor driving american consulting firms out of business and displacing highly skilled u s workers first indian consulting firm patni undercut american workers when dol approved the labor condition applications for a prevailing wage of 44 000 per year this is far below the 45 to 80 per hour that the yoh study found to be the average for u s workers with high demand skills such as database administrator and application developer what patni didn t disclose was that the 44 000 salary presumed that their workers put in lots of overtime their base pay was only 11 72 an hour they were expected to reach their salary by working overtime but even with 23 days of overtime one h 1b s annual pay worked out to only 35 305 in 2004 as state farm in bloomington illinois was laying off their american staff the lca database reveals that patni computer systems was bringing in hundreds of indians on h 1b visas many placed at state farm as mandated by the u s congress the department of labor rubber stamped these lcas labor condition applications for wages as low as 27 000 for computer programmers h 1b workers must have a minimum of a bs degree and specialized skills many of the lcas were filed by dayanand allapur vice president hrd 617 914 8367 patni s main number cambridge ma is 617 914 8000 among the americans who lost their jobs was george moraetes he reports having seen 4 5 h1 b s living in a one bedroom apartment and that the same pattern of h 1b usage was employed by ge contrary to helping the u s remain globally competitive the top users of the h 1b program are indian consulting firms they are transferring u s jobs and technology back to india and increasing the u s trade deficit without the h 1b and l 1 visa programs much of this loss of u s tech leadership would not be possible patni is headquartered in mumbai india their website provides roadmaps for transferring manufacturing offshore http www patni com the u s congress needs to wake up to the imminent threat posed to the u s economy by shipping our manufacturing to china and now services to india or economy cannot sustain this growing trade deficit and gutting of u s infrastructure posted by mr kim berry at 9 00 am 19 comments labels h 1b patni state farm sunday february 3 2008 flaws in university of buffalo spectrum s call for h 1b increase the original article is here http spectrum buffalo edu article php id 35050 this is an image of the front page where it run in the printed edition http spectrum buffalo edu images frontpage fp pdf article companies are very welcoming to international students because they can pay them less money than the local workers even if their ability is equal said ping lu a sophomore management major from china fact industry would dispute this claiming that h 1b has a prevailing wage requirement we thank ping for setting the record straight h 1b workers are often preferred because they are willing to work cheaper for the opportunity to stay in the usa and the prevailing wage is a sham article henry mok a malaysian student who graduated from ub with a b s in electrical engineering applied to at least 80 jobs during his opt in the buffalo area with only a few interviews and no job offers mok spent his summer perfecting his fishing skills at a friend s farm rather than his engineering expertise fact u s graduates are facing a similar job market mok s inability to find a job after sending 80 resumes refutes claims by industry that the h 1b cap needs to be raised to solve a labor shortage article employers in addition to being required by law to pay the fees have to prove that they could not find any better qualified domestic workers instead fact the h 1b has no such requirement employers can overlook a stack of resumes from more qualified u s applicants and hire the h 1b worker instead the impact on u s workers is evident at www hireamericansfirst org members h1b_harm_report aspx article the final step is to apply for the visa by april 1 the first day applications are accepted students with a bachelor s degree are competing with over 100 000 others for an allotment of 45 000 visas fact the base cap is 65 000 not 45 000 posted by mr kim berry at 6 42 pm no comments labels h 1b h1b newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom subscribe in a reader blog archive 2009 1 december 1 2008 5 april 1 march 1 february 2 businessweek 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