Lou Dobbs: Cook County Resolution against H-1b

Nine thousand information technology jobs disappeared from the Chicago market in just the last year. Now, Cook County is trying to Nine thousand information technology jobs disappeared from the Chicago market in just the last year. Now, Cook County is trying to ensure U.S. citizens have the first crack at any IT job openings. Chicago's local government just passed a new resolution that requires a 30-day period for U.S. citizens to apply for technology jobs before employers can request permission from the Department of Labor to bring in foreign nationals on an H1-B or L-1 visa.

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[sopmodm4]

Hmmm,they H1B guys will do a $100K per year for $48K so that 30 day application requirement is just a feel good reach around.If these H1Bs are so skilled then why has my job essentially become training them to do things that any US college kid can do right out of the box but won't do it for peanuts?When a degree in computer science pays the same as a truck driver or a plumber you know something crooked is being perpetrated on all of us(including immigrant workers).WAGE SLAVERY IS HERE!!

[jumpingaijin]

"I assure you, there is no shortage of skilled engineers in the U.S."

--Vivek Wadhwa, an Indian national and a fellow with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and executive in residence/adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.

[GildyGury]

FUK COOK COUNTY N THEIR DEP OF INVESTIGATIONS LED BY BEVERLY STROUT. Idiots DONT CARE IF ' DOCTORs ' KILL PATIENTS.100%FACTS!SAY NO2STROGER N GOTTLIEB ANIMAL SHITY HOSPITALS!

[AmericanMale1953]

Walgreens is hiring East Intians like crazy. IT work is not rocket science, it is the GREED of certain companies, both US, (Microsoft) and Indian, (TATA consulting). Just because India suffers from overpopulation, (which is their own doing) the solution should not be bankrupting qualified Americans that have been in IT for years. We will deal with it one way or another, we are not going to lay down and let you run over us on this, you have my word on that.

[AmericanMale1953]

Not properly legislating fiscal accounting is the primary reality of our demise. Most of Us have one thing in common, our stomachs are getting empty and it is getting worse, not better. Politicians can't just be "busy" in times of crisis, they must PRODUCE RESULTS.

Unemployed US IT worker, (first time my 34 year career).

1995 to 2005 - 110k to 115K per year

2006 to 2007 - 85K per year

2008 25K - per year

2009 5K - per year (unsustainable at current cost of living)

[xinic12]

@xgotfiveonitx u fuck off jobless hunter....

[xgotfiveonitx]

@xinic12 fuck off you green card hunter

[xinic12]

@mixmastah2 jungles??? hmmmm....really.....if that's the case i wouldn't have got a job in 1 of the fortune 100.....

[xinic12]

@jumpingaijin jealous its u ppl who r jealous....if not y r u crying everytime by saying "v lost our jobs to indians" fucker...go and get a life....

[xinic12]

@xgotfiveonitx then y the fuck ur parents went to amreeka...idiot..

[xinic12]

@chinasucksforever good joke....any way for ur kind info pentium processors and USB co-inventor ajay butt....and even google mentor were IIT grads.....if u don't know a shit shut ur mouth..if u r not satisfied by this information..go and check ur prestigious institutions such as MIT,Stanford,Harvard..i bet u will find IIT grads..."IIT r like 7th graders" by the way which institution did u study in"...

[xinic12]

@sopmodm4 i get $80,000 on my H1 visa..is that so cheap by american standards..