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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:18:11 EST
From: Das GOAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "Shortage" of Skilled Labor in US
Recently there was a full-page article in the local newspaper about how
employers
across the board are complaining there's a shortage of "skilled" labor in the
US.
The article seems to have used that bogus claim to justify importation of
FOREIGN
labor (e.g., Pakistani computer programmers, Filipino nurses, etc) which of
course can be put to work at considerably lower cost to the employer ...
Seems to be a trend:
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...WHAT Programmer Shortage ???
A professor questions the ITAA's cry of "wolf"
The US administration announced plans to spend $28M [1]
on a program of technical training and public education -- monitor tans
are attractive, really -- to ease what it called a critical shortage of
programmers, citing industry figures that 1 in 10 programming jobs
(a total of 346,000) are going unfilled. A UC Davis professor has
published a paper [2] called "Debunking the Myth of a Labor Shortage."
He claims the hidden agenda of the Information Technology
Association of America's campaign is to "develop an image of a software
labor shortage in the public consciousness" and thereby increase the
number of cheap college graduates available to employers.
[1] http://www8.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0112/15aitaa.html
[2] http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html
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