From: owner-ieeeusa-pace-reg3@listserv.ieee.org on behalf of George
F McClure [galaxies@CFL.RR.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 3:16
PM
To: ieeeusa-allcwpc@IEEE.ORG
Cc:
ieeeusa-pace-cmte@IEEE.ORG; ieeeusa-pace-reg3@IEEE.ORG;
c.mcmanes@IEEE.ORG
Subject: Some Say We Need More H-1Bs!
Compare
this with the news item that it will take a decade for Silicon Valley to regain
2000 employment levels. Does this new "shortage" mean that demand is
welling up elsewhere, or that the 160,000 IT professionals who have removed
themselves from the pool available to the workforce (to become school teachers,
mortgage processors, or taxi drivers) have posed a critical loss to
industry?
I think neither -- rather, that the supply of low-priced
high-tech labor may be shrinking.
There is a hotel strike in San
Francisco, and October is the peak month for meetings there. One tax
driver told me that it hit his business also -- if it got worse he might have to
go back to teaching eighth grade. Then he would be competing with
engineers!
[See the rest at
https://www.competeamerica.org/news/alliance_pr/20041004_cap.html
]
George
George F McClure
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