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8/03/03- Where The Good Jobs Are Going!

To protect domestic jobs, U.S. labor activists are pushing to limit the number of H-1B and L-1 visas granted to foreign workers. That would make it harder for offshore companies to have their employees working on site in the U.S. "These programs were designed for a booming high-tech economy, not a busting high-tech economy," says Marcus Courtney of the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America (CWA). Courtney and his allies are starting to get the attention of lawmakers. Several congressional committees have held hearings on the impact of offshore outsourcing on the U.S. enonomy, and lawmakers in six states have introduced bills that would limit or forbid filling government contracts through offshore outsourcing. Download entire Time magazine article in Adobe PDF format.

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