Making it Personal when it's about the Numbers, Business Week on Prof. Norm Matloff
I find this article kind of disturbing:
An Academic's Labor Helps Fight H-1B Visas
Norm Matloff, a computer science professor with a Chinese-born wife, says the U.S. skilled-immigrant visa system exploits workers everywhereBy Moira Herbst
Not many computer science professors are activists on immigration policy. But Norm Matloff of the University of California, Davis wears both hats. He has been a vocal critic of the H-1B visa program for skilled immigrants since the mid-1990s, and now maintains a Web page and e-mail listserv discussing offshoring and the H-1B visa program, which he calls a "sham." He says his motivation is to protect and preserve tech job opportunities for the students he teaches.
The spin is the cheap labor lobby attempts to make it about race when it is about cheap labor, wage arbitrage. Yet, as we are seeing more and more, in an indirect way it is about race and this is why: When one nation tries to capture the American job market for all of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematical services....yes, it's going to turn into that because it's discriminatory against U.S. citizens in their own country...you have a selective agenda to simply capture jobs for India...which implies for Indian citizens.
But a key point on that score is U.S. citizens come in all flavors. U.S. citizens are not just "white males", they are black, Hispanics, Indian, Asian, older, disabled and so on.
So the key issue remains this is about labor and it's about cheap labor, younger, manipulative labor as Matloff has so often proved as have other labor economists and policy analysts.
You just happen to have one nation, i.e. India, who is trying to capture entire sectors through their own workforce.
So, why bring up some of the more off the wall type of responses?
Also, Matloff has gone to Washington to lobby for tech workers and it is assuredly true U.S. professionals simply do not get that they must organize and be a strong political force to really gain support for U.S. careers and professional workers.
You cannot just sit around and bitch, write a few nasties in a comment and expect to get anywhere.
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