well, if you know how. you will.

and you better not wuss out cause of the cold!

Beyond the recent outrage where the NLRB claimed Nurses are now supervisors, there was just by voice vote and a sudden "unanimous consent", voice vote,  passing H-1C Visas to bring in foreign nurses. 

I am only aware of unions being against this from 2003, I have no idea what they think now but I sure have seen various nurses talking about the sad state of nursing school and how impossible it is to get in because Academia will not pay nursing professors what they are worth to teach.

To me, it looks like nurses are under attack but I haven't followed this closely.  It would nice to see what they say.

that the SEIU is the principle union representing nurses (though the UFCW may have some as well). 

There is some good info in the two folling links...

http://www.valuecare...

http://seiu.org/heal...

I couldn't find any statments on the H1-C stuff.  The AFL-CIO has some info on it's site about the other guest workers visas though.  http://www.aflcio.or...

what is the status of the bill you diaried about the other day?

in a nutshell, it's really nuts.

We're hearing (and this is from some congressional staffers)
Cornyn is going to keep trying all the way until the session ends (tomorrow) and had removed some of the "hold"
or "object" votes and then we hear from another congressional staffer that it's dead and not going to happen.

From every report though it was clear that Microsoft had indeed swarmed the hill, including some reports of Bill Gates...now why the richest guy in the world must arm twist for more cheap labor is beyond me...well, the history of Microsoft, maybe not.  ;)

Then of the people advocating for working America physically there we're hearing different reports also (dead, alive, possible, no).  I think the news changed at one point every hour.

I personally think I need to read up on all of the dirty tricks to pass something at the last minute under the radar.

I guess I should start with Tom Delay ;)

But, what's very cool is a lot of diverse groups pulled together and have been working hard to stop it...and to me
that's the best sign for labor alone or netroots alone or
even the immigration people alone it would have passed, I'm sure of it.

I hope that's a sign of things to come that everyone who has working America interests join together to support each other.

Yeah, I don't know what's going on with the nurses...I've read a series of blogs that were clearly outrage over H-1C and all of the real problems that were not being addressed
(instead of the classic throw imported labor at it).

There also seems to be differing positions between the AFL-CIO and the SEIU on some of these issues.

I know the AFL-CIO is against the H-1B, probably because the evidence is overwhelming that it's a labor arbitrage vehicle with a sliver of the Visas actually used to enable true talent into the US.  They are busy firing true talent so that kind of makes sense to me.

I have a very hard time believing we cannot find teachers (they are using NIVs (guest worker Visas) to bring over teachers now) and especially real estate back office processors!

I so wish I could go, but instead will be at my own work, let em know how we all feel!

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