URGENT SENATE ACTION ALERT: Please Help, Labor Arbitrage, SKIL ACT (S.2691)

[Robert Oak]

This is a quick diary to just spread the word....

We found out from sources on the Hill that

Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) appears to be on the edge of negotiating an agreement to allow him to slip a bill through the Senate, maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow, that would entail a gigantic increase in 3-year H-1B visas.

This is the SKIL Act or S.2691
House companion bill is HR. 5744

Capitol Switchboard
202-224-3121


told that there is a labor coalition, bi-partisan that might help. They are:

Bunning (R-KY) 202.224.4343
Byrd (D-WV) 202.224-3954
Coburn (R-OK) [phone]
Crapo (R-ID) [phone]
DeMint (R-SC) [phone]
Dorgan (D-ND) [phone]
Ensign (R-NV) [phone]
Grassley (R-IA) [phone]
Inhofe (R-OK) [phone]
Isakson (R-GA) [phone]
Ben Nelson (D-NE) [phone]
Santorum (R-PA) [phone]
Sessions (R-AL) [phone]
Stabenow (D-MI) [phone]
Thune (R-SD) [phone]
Vitter (R-LA) [phone]

Look up others.


Obviously they are sneaking this in as fast as possible under the radar so the only way to help is to make the phone calls to their DC offices.

This is the big one folks and if it passes the entire field of Science and Engineering will surely be decimated.
If you need any more background information, Norm Matloff has especially been analyzing this bill.
The IEEE-USA H-1B/L-1 information page.
On our site is a reposted Georgetown study on the professional Visas in S.2611 and because the Skil Act has MORE Visas that the provisions in S.2611 the results will be worse. This page has other major studies also, including the recent GAO fraud report. I diaried some info here too.

NOTE: The Georgetown study says they will bring in more cheap foreign labor that TOTAL jobs projects (and BLS is never conservative) until 2011.

I hate to ask this but can I get some recommends? We really need help, we're up against the biggest corporate lobby and the more people who make a phone call the more chance we have to save jobs and careers.

Please also call your own Senators. Especially Democrats.
We just worked so hard to get so many into office in order to represent working America! So, where are the Democrats in stopping the insourcing of cheap labor to labor arbitrage US jobs? What is the difference between shipping the job offshore and importing cheap labor? It's the same US worker who is out of work and now in financial ruin.

[sadiesworld]

1. I'm absolutely sickened at the number of dems vs repubs.

Lots of names being bandied around for '08 that are conspicuously absent from this list.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Will call.

K&R

[sadiesworld]

2. Should this be in GD?

GD: politcs seems to focus on '08 candidates. I think some people just aren't interested yet and tend to skip this furum. :shrug:

[stillcool]

3. a Kick and an R....n/t