If it is true that employers do not have to advertise positions available, prior to bringing in H1-B visa workers, then my position on this issue must remain opposed to such nonsense. How many programmers, technology qualified individuals in the U.S. are unable to relocate with employer assistance? :) Tom On 02/08/2013 10:08 AM, David Nelsen wrote: > I think this is a good topic to discuss. I am afraid I do not have > enough information to have an educated opinion. I am a technology > small business owner and I am struggling with finding specific skills. > Ubu what is your position. BTW- The main motivation of joinging TCLUG > is to develop relationships and eventually recruit talent. > > > David Nelsen, BoTG > Healthcare Technical Analyst > Slingshot Healthcare Informatics > Office 651.472.5678 > Skype: slingshot.hci > > > > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Ubu Sumner <ubusum at ymail.com > <mailto:ubusum at ymail.com>> wrote: > > I don't expect a discussion of this here, since it's stretching > the TCLUG mission perhaps, but I'm hoping some of you might > appreciate a gentle suggestion to put your opinion into an email, > whatever that might be. The horse may be out of the barn for > Klobuchar on this issue, but sometimes it helps anyway to write a > thoughtful letter. If you agree with her you can send her a thank > you note. ;) > > Contact links to your Congress people: > http://www.usayfoundation.org/states/minnesota > > Yesterday in the Star: > > http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/189453241.html > > "....Minnesota _Sen. Amy Klobuchar's legislation_ > <http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/188777081.html> to > increase H-1B visas and green card quotas is welcome and will help > the U.S. economy. The jobs that are offered will only be located > where there are not sufficient qualified local citizens...." > > Today in the New York Times: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/opinion/americas-genius-glut.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130208 > > "....Bringing over more --- there are already 500,000 workers on > H-1B visas --- would obviously darken job prospects for America's > struggling young scientists and engineers. But it would also hurt > our efforts to produce more: if the message to American students > is, "Don't bother working hard for a high-tech degree, because we > can import someone to do the job for less," we could do > significant long-term damage to the high-tech educational system > we value so dearly. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130208/e1820981/attachment.html>