RE: AS/400 Lobby

        Since I hit 50 this year, legislation like this sounds appealing.  However, what I'm wondering is why haven't these companies exported the jobs off-shore instead of asking for H1B visas?  It seems to me that the same Internet technology that's playing havoc with the copyright laws can also play havoc with the traditional labor structure?

        A colleage of mine is currently on vacation in the Phillipines.  Although he cannot find a postcard where he is, he found a dinky little place called "Perfect Byte", an Internet Cafe and sent us an e-mail.  What's to prevent a company from setting up an off-shore site with a couple of servers and a vpn connection and having the work done there?

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-----Original Message-----
From: jkrueger@dhagroup.com [mailto:jkrueger@dhagroup.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 2:58 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: AS/400 Lobby

Our cash pensions site (http://www.cashpensions.com/uslegislation.htm) is
tracking all of the H1B Visa related legislation, has links to all articles
we've found on the subject, and has sample letters you can send to your
representatives about the issue.  Things I've learned about the issue this year
lead me to believe it is an issue we should all be heavily lobbying about.

For those of you who haven't learned about the issue, H1B Visas are granted to
high technology workers for temporary jobs in the United States.  They are
mostly being used by companies who are concurrently laying off their older US
workers, which is a practice that needs to stop. 

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