11/08/2005: Dear Dintinguished Leaders of AFL-CIO and Other Unions
We are grateful for your efforts to keep our jobs in the United States. We also realize that you are one of the stakeholders when it comes to the shrinkage of the job market in the U.S. as affected by the outsourcing and exporting of jobs to foreign countries in that you need to protect the size of your membership to powerfully represent the interests of the workers.
We want to call your attention to a legislative bill, S. 1932, which the Senate overwhelmly passed on November 3, 2005 exactly to protect the jobs against the outsourcing of jobs. The House is currently working on the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 which does not reflect the provisions that protect jobs in the U.S. under the Section 8001 of S. 1932. We invite you to join us to educate the House members to accept the Senate bill and either amend the House bill which was passed by the Budget Committee of the House on November 3, 2005 or when it gets to the conference committee, they consent to the Senate bill.
Here is why you will have to do it:
If S. 1932 is enacted into law, the following jobs will remain in the U.S., albeit by the foreign workers, contributing to the nation's employment and economy in that these foreign workers will generate businesses, revenues, and competitive edge over the foreign businesses by participating in the consumer market and investment market. They will also contribute to the growth of employment and your membership.
If the unused H-1B numbers of 300,000 are not recaptured and used, the U.S. businesses will have to outsource 300,000 jobs to foreign countries.
If 90,000 unused Employment Based immigrant visa quota numbers are not recaptured and used, these jobs will also be outsourced to foreign countries.
Distinguished union leaders, the jobs taken by foreign workers either in the U.S. or foreign countries depend on the market forces in the global economy and free trade. For the international competitions, U.S. businesses will have to rely on some foreign workers, particularly high tech professionals, no matter where they perform the jobs.
However, if the job had to be done overseas by the outsourced foreign workers in a territory of a foreign country, they will not contribute to the American economy other than supply of labor forces, and these outsourced jobs will not create businesses and jobs in the related industries as they will not spend money to buy the goods and services in this country. The foreign workers who are hired and work in the country will generate and boost the country's domestic businesses and jobs as they spend their income in this country. Granted that the U.S. businesses will need their services and allegedly they will take away American jobs, the result will remain same: No matter what, whether in the form of oursourcing or hiring foreign workers within the country, probably the same number of jobs may be allegedly taken away by the global market forces. The huge difference between the two is that outsourcing of jobs will not help to create jobs and business within the country by the forced of consumption but the foreign workers in the U.S. will. Come to think of the affect of McDonald hamburger drive-in orders taken by foreign workers in a foreign country and orders taken by a foreign worker in town. Come to think of the ongoing Northwest Airlines Mechanics strikes.
A large number of high tech workers have already moved or are currently moving to our competitors in the Europe, Canada, Australia. Our business clients are more and more bringing the jobs to foreign companies in Asia and South America. No one can stop the rule of global economy and the business reality.
Dear union leaders, the bill is not asking to increase annual quota or cap. These are the numbers which the law has already provided in the existing statures, but wasted because of the government failure to process petitions and applications timely for a number of reasons in the past. We are talking about the "recapture"of the numbers which the laws and regulations mandated the U.S. government to use but the government failed. Because of the fault of the government, the Congressionally mandated quota and cap have not been issued and the U.S. businesses are going outside of the country to look for labor foces in the foreign countries. You will agree that it is not the best interest for our nation and our economy. S. 1932 will not take away American jobs in that the law already provided these numbers and the law was in the lawbook. Please contact your Congressional representatives to tell them that S. 1932 is not to take away jobs from the American labor market but to protect the American labor market by precluding outsourcing of our jobs to foreign countries, particularly our competitors! Thank you.