Activists to protest NIVs at Texas Instruments

Date: Monday, October 06, 2003 2:50 PM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

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Joe Valley's website is at http://www.american-champions.org/

Texas Labor Champions: http://www.texaslaborchampions.org/

I included a letter to the editor by Gene Nelson, a member of the Texas
Labor Champions.

For a good laugh, be sure to see this:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/carledits.asp

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/6944312.htm

Posted on Mon, Oct. 06, 2003

Activists to protest temporary work visas

A controversial immigration program that provides temporary visas to
thousands of skilled, foreign workers was scaled back last week. But
that victory for immigration opponents isn't stopping a group of local
activists from rallying against the program.

The organization, called Texas Labor Champions, plans an eight-hour
demonstration Saturday outside Texas Instruments' Dallas office to
protest the loss of American jobs to non-U.S. workers and overseas
outsourcing, and to urge the company's employees to unionize.

The group, which conducted similar protests this summer at Microsoft,
Perot Systems and Bank of America, focuses much of its attention on
H-1B visas. Those are the permits that allow foreign-born workers with
special skills to work in the United States for up to six years.

During the economic boom of the late 1990s, the federal government
raised its restrictions to let up to 195,000 international workers per
year obtain the visas. Last week, Congress allowed that cap to expire
and return to 65,000 new visas annually.

The lower limit isn't enough for Texas Labor Champions.

"We'd like the H-1B program to be abolished completely," member Joseph
Valley said. "That's 65,000 Americans who are being displaced by those
H-1B's."

http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/letters/stories/100603dnedimondayletters.9ee87.html

Favor citizens first

Re: "Texas still last on health coverage list," by Roger Yu, Tuesday
news story.
It does not take a Ph.D. scientist to understand the connection between
what The Dallas Morning News euphemistically refers to as Texas' "high
migrant population" and the news that Texas is dismally still the last
in the country for health insurance coverage. Employers tend to covet
the younger migrants since their short-term health care costs are
negligible. (Long-term, the costs of providing social services to the
migrants are mostly shifted to middle-class taxpayers.)

However, this Ph.D. scientist had his employer-provided health
insurance ended when his employer cut his job, with hundreds of other
American citizens in 2001. The company then retained its migrant
workers on special visa programs. This Ph.D. has been unable to locate
regular full-time employment for over two years.

I urge Dallas Morning News readers to contact their legislators to
demand reforms to protect the employment interests of American citizens
now.

Gene Nelson, Carrollton

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