Programmers Guild

Programmers Guild
Company typeProfessional organization
SuccessorUnited Information Workers (UIW)
Websitehttps://www.unitedinformationworkers.com/

Programmers Guild[1] is an attorney-founded group[2] intended to protect legal hi-tech immigrants to the United States and help them in obtaining Green cards. The New York Times called them a trade group[3] and, in 2016, a "tech worker organization."[4] It also serves as a job search clearing house.[5][6]

It has been relaunched under the umbrella organization United Information Workers

The Guild has been described as "a nonprofit group with a volunteer staff."[7][8] It was founded in 1998,[9] and won in a case it filed 2006 with the US Department of Justice.[10][11]

The Programmers Guild was an active participant in various legislative hearings,[12] and companies such as Intel, Microsoft and Oracle supported them.[1] Their use of the term guild was part of a CNN headline: "IT guild: A once and future union?"[13] and the article evaluated the term union, noting that computer professionals are already members of large long standing organizations such as Communications Workers of America and International Federation for Professional and Technical Engineers.

Membership

Dice.com, a career website, wrote in 2013 that most of the Guild's members are over age 40, and that "predominately" those involved in H-1B situations are entry level.[14]

Kinship

Other organizations that have been compared to the Guild include WashTech[15][16] and Bright Future Jobs.[17]

Book

Michelle Malkin's Sold Out (book), co-authored with the Guild's founder, uses the term crapweasel in the plural on the cover. The New York Times did not do a book review on this Malkin book.[18]

References

  1. ^ a b Juliana Barbassa (October 30, 2007). "Foreign tech workers protest over snarled visa issue". The New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  2. ^ Patrick Thibodeau (December 29, 2009). "Court Orders Three H-1b Sites Disabled". The New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  3. ^ Leslie Wayne (April 29, 2001). "Workers, and Bosses, in a Visa Maze". The New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  4. ^ Julia Preston (March 5, 2016). "Trump's Softened Stance on Visas Alarms Some Immigration Critics". The New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  5. ^ "Clearing house". August 27, 2022.
  6. ^ Grant Gross (May 3, 2013). "Veteran tech workers see themselves locked out of job market". PCWorld. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  7. ^ Matt Richtel (April 12, 2009). "Tech Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Rules". The New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  8. ^ "Obama preparing comprehensive technology policy". The New York Times. November 11, 2012. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  9. ^ "Meet John Miano, Founder Of The Programmers Guild". Information Week. February 2, 2007.
  10. ^ Gavin Clarke (May 2, 2008). "DoJ beats up tech firm for H-1B only job ads". TheRegister. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  11. ^ Patrick ThibodeauBy (June 19, 2007). "H-1B video shocker: 'Our goal is clearly not to find a qualified ... U.S. worker'". Computerworld. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  12. ^ Sharon Gaudin (April 14, 2006). "Are H-1B Visas a Cog in the Offshoring Machine?". Datamation. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  13. ^ Meridith Levinson (May 9, 2001). "IT guild: A once and future union?". CNN. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  14. ^ Dawn Kawamoto (May 15, 2013). "Programmers Guild: The American Worker Needs Protection". Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  15. ^ "Cutting Here, but Hiring Over There", The New York Times, June 24, 2005
  16. ^ Washington Alliance of Technical Workers, or WASHTECH, an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America"Corporations Try to Bar Use of E-Mail by Unions". The New York Times.
  17. ^ Grant Gross (June 2, 2014). "US tech worker groups boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower". PCWorld. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  18. ^ Yet they praised her first hardcover book in 2009: "Inside the List". The New York Times. August 6, 2009. conservative firebrand Michelle Malkin enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 1 with "Culture of Corruption"


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