Relaunched under the umbrella organization United Information Workers
Organization to benefit (some) computer programmers
Programmers Guild [1] is the name of an attorney -founded group[2] intended to protect legal hi-tech immigrants to the United States and help them in obtaining Green cards . The New York Times called them a trade group [3] and, in 2016, a "tech worker organization ."[4] It also serves as a job search clearing house .[5] [6]
The Guild has been described as "a nonprofit group with a volunteer staff."[7] [8] It was founded in 1998,[9] and won in a case it filed 2006 with the US Department of Justice .[10] [11]
The Programmers Guild was an active participant in various legislative hearings,[12] and companies such as Intel , Microsoft and Oracle supported them.[1] Their use of the term guild was part of a CNN headline: "IT guild: A once and future union?"[13] and the article evaluated the term union , noting that computer professionals are already members of large long standing organizations such as Communications Workers of America and International Federation for Professional and Technical Engineers .
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Dice.com , a career website, wrote in 2013 that most of the Guild's members are over age 40, and that "predominately" those involved in H-1B situations are entry level.[14]
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Other organizations that have been compared to the Guild include WashTech [15] [16] and Bright Future Jobs .[17]
Michelle Malkin 's Sold Out (book) , co-authored with the Guild's founder, uses the term crapweasel in the plural on the cover. The New York Times did not do a book review on this Malkin book.[18]
References [ edit ]
^ a b Juliana Barbassa (October 30, 2007). "Foreign tech workers protest over snarled visa issue" . The New York Times . Retrieved August 30, 2022 .
^ Patrick Thibodeau (December 29, 2009). "Court Orders Three H-1b Sites Disabled" . The New York Times . Retrieved August 30, 2022 .
^ Leslie Wayne (April 29, 2001). "Workers, and Bosses, in a Visa Maze" . The New York Times . Retrieved August 30, 2022 .
^ Julia Preston (March 5, 2016). "Trump's Softened Stance on Visas Alarms Some Immigration Critics" . The New York Times . Retrieved August 30, 2022 .
^ "Clearing house" . August 27, 2022.
^ Grant Gross (May 3, 2013). "Veteran tech workers see themselves locked out of job market" . PCWorld . Retrieved August 31, 2022 .
^ Matt Richtel (April 12, 2009). "Tech Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Rules" . The New York Times . Retrieved August 30, 2022 .
^ "Obama preparing comprehensive technology policy" . The New York Times . November 11, 2012. Retrieved August 30, 2022 .
^ "Meet John Miano, Founder Of The Programmers Guild" . Information Week . February 2, 2007.
^ Gavin Clarke (May 2, 2008). "DoJ beats up tech firm for H-1B only job ads" . TheRegister . Retrieved August 30, 2022 .
^ Patrick ThibodeauBy (June 19, 2007). "H-1B video shocker: 'Our goal is clearly not to find a qualified ... U.S. worker' " . Computerworld . Retrieved August 31, 2022 .
^ Sharon Gaudin (April 14, 2006). "Are H-1B Visas a Cog in the Offshoring Machine?" . Datamation . Retrieved August 31, 2022 .
^ Meridith Levinson (May 9, 2001). "IT guild: A once and future union?" . CNN . Retrieved August 31, 2022 .
^ Dawn Kawamoto (May 15, 2013). "Programmers Guild: The American Worker Needs Protection" . Retrieved August 31, 2022 .
^ "Cutting Here, but Hiring Over There" , The New York Times , June 24, 2005
^ Washington Alliance of Technical Workers, or WASHTECH, an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America "Corporations Try to Bar Use of E-Mail by Unions" . The New York Times .
^ Grant Gross (June 2, 2014). "US tech worker groups boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower" . PCWorld . Retrieved August 31, 2022 .
^ Yet they praised her first hardcover book in 2009: "Inside the List" . The New York Times . August 6, 2009. conservative firebrand Michelle Malkin enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 1 with "Culture of Corruption"
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