First it was the H1B software coolies that began screwing American workers (thanks to greedy U.S. corporations). Now, the down-on-their-luck American workers are being bitch slapped by other things Indian. The New York Times has an interesting article today on how Indian steel pipes are being used in an oil pipeline project in Granite City, […]
Even recessions have silver linings – as in less number of H1B applications (mostly from the Indian coolies for U.S. IT jobs). As of April 9, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had received only 42,000 fresh H1B Visa applications for fiscal 2010 starting on October 1. CIS, which started accepting applications on April 1, said it’d […]
Folks, IT employment in the U.S. is down for the fourth consecutive month. According to the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses, IT employment continues to fall in the U.S., with 31,300 jobs disappearing in March 2009. The loss of 31,000 IT jobs in March, amidst tough economic times for American families, comes on the […]
Loss-making Reader’s Digest Association Inc has signed a cost-cutting oriented $350 million, seven-year IT outsourcing agreement with India’s HCL Technologies. The agreement is supposed to cover Reader’s Digest Association’s entire IT landscape, spanning the gamut from infrastructure to applications. IT Support from Coolie Nations From low wage nations like India and Poland, HCL Technologies will […]
H1-B Visa program, the scourge of American software programmers and other professionals, has reached its cap of 65,000 within seven days of opening the gates for fiscal 2009. Most likely, the cap was reached on April 1 itself although the official announcement from USCIS came today. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said today […]
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee members Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Democratic Senator Richard Durbin  on May 14, 2007 fired a shot across the bow of nine top Indian IT companies that heavily use H1B Visas charging them with displacing qualified, American workers. In a letter to the CEOs of the top nine IT companies including […]