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IEEE presses Congress to protect engineers' jobs
By Margaret Quan
EE Times
July 12, 2002 (6:31 p.m. EST)
MANHASSET, N.Y. — Expressing alarm over soaring EE unemployment, the IEEE-USA called on Congress this past week to rethink H-1B visas and other mechanisms that render American engineers a "disposable labor commodity."
In a letter to every member of Congress, the professional body specifically decried "management practices that make engineers' jobs less secure and careers in engineering increasingly untenable."
The letter, signed by IEEE-USA president LeEarl Bryant, went out only days after U.S. Labor Department figures confirmed that the EE jobless rate shot up 13 percent during the second quarter, to 34,000. That raised the unemployment rate for the group to 4.8 percent, up from 4.1 percent in the first quarter.
The numbers sparked an outcry in the profession that spread well beyond IEEE-USA's walls in Washington. Some suggested this past week that the Labor Department numbers, while the best measure of the data available, don't tell the whole story. A former member of IEEE's workforce committee, Robert Rivers, an EE for 49 years, maintained that the actual total of what he called "displaced EEs" is more than three times as high as the Labor figure.
Rivers said he was basing his estimate on a study he conducted several years ago of Labor Department joblessness statistics.
In her letter to Congress, IEEE-USA's Bryant charged that EE unemployment, which she said hit an "all-time high" in the second quarter, is "not a short-term or cyclical phenomenon but represents a more fundamental paradigm shift in engineering utilization that has potentially negative impacts for our nation. The corporate management mantra 'better, faster, cheaper,' is predicated on 'flexible labor markets.' "
In technical fields, said Bryant, labor flexibility "is a euphemism for hiring foreign guest workers, increasing use of temporary workers and outsourcing engineering work overseas."
As a result, she said, "U.S. engineers are finding it harder and harder to find new jobs" after a layoff.
Bryant called on Congress to "take a closer look" at the H-1B temporary visa program, which allows companies to import foreign engineers for specialized jobs, and at other practices that "encourage corporate management to treat U.S. engineers as a disposable labor commodity rather than an essential investment in our nation's future."
In an interview with EE Times, Bryant urged EEs to be a "squeaky wheel" to put the issue on the government's radar.
"We need them to visit their Congressmen and women at the local level and put pressure on them to hold hearings [on the issue]," she said.
Meanwhile, another professional group, the American Engineering Association, backs a congressional effort to cut the number of foreign workers who can be hired under H-1B.
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김덕양
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에구 관전평님 빨리 영주권 신청하세요. 흑- 아직 직장도 못구한 저는 어찌 될려는지 답답하네요. ^^
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관전평
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영주할 생각이 없으니, 영주권이 무슨 소용이겠습니까. 대한민국이 잘되서 조국에서 영주할 수 있게 되는 게 제 꿈입니다.
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mhkim
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저의 매형은 H-1B를 가지고 미국에 있는데 10명중 7명이 layoff되는 상황에서도 살아 남았습니다.(나이도 제법 됩니다. 40대 후반) 실력만 있으면 별 문제는 아닌듯...
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김덕양
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크으 미국에서 계속 살려고 영주권 신청하나요...어이없게 갑자기 안쫓겨나려고 신청하지요. 흑.
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김용국
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911 테러 이후에 H-1B를 가지고 일을 하는 분이나, F1으로서 일을 구하는 분들이 겪는 어려움은 극에 달한 것 같습니다. 예전에 봤던 사이트중에 <a href=http://www.shameh1b.zazona.com target=_blank>http://www.shameh1b.zazona.com</a> 라는게 있었는데, 이런류의 안티 H-1B 사이트가 꽤 되더군요.
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김용국
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타국에서 외로움과 불안함에도 열심히 자신의 일을 하시는 많은 분들 힘내세요. 객지에서 무슨 서러운 일을 당해도 국민을 위해 큰소리 하나 못해주는 정부의 국민이지만, 스스로 부지런하고 능력있다는 자부심을 갖고 사는 모습을 보여줍시다.
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연구원
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미국에서 박사학위 5년하면 영주권나오나요? 아님, 학위하고 거기서 취직해도 H-1B 비자인가요?
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김덕양
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후자입니다. 취직한뒤 보통 영주권 수속 밟죠.
