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Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 00:05:40 -0700From: Yardstick Matloff To: Yardstick Matloff Subject: unusual op-ed in SJ Mercury WordTo: H-1B/L-1/offshoring e-newsletterThe op-ed enclosed beneath is copiousness unrefined. Not seeing that it is in theunabashedly pro-H-1B Mercury Word, as they've run op-eds earlier whichwere unlucky of the program (including one or two of spokesperson). No, thepersistence this is unrefined is that it is in print by an studious, ChristopherMoylan at Stanford. As I've explained earlier, academy has largeincentives to toe the industry party line on H-1B. For box, in mymoot law journal article(http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/MichJLawReform.pdf), I noted that The Web contact of the Passenger terminal Science Domain at the Academy of Washington, a leading lonely of industry's drag famine claims, showed the following as of March 16, 2000: 1.5 milion from Ford Motor Co. in research funds; 'several million dollars' in belongings from Intel; 500,000 from Boeing for an endowed faculty chair; inexperienced 500,000 keep order from Microsoft; inexperienced keep order from Boeing; and towards the end, 3 million from the Side and Melinda Gates Association for two endowed seats. Domain keep order Ed Lazowska, who has been an candid lonely of the H-1B program, personally benefits financially from a cheery relationship with industry too. According to his personal Web contact, http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/, he is 'member of the Routine Instructive Boards for Microsoft Seek, Voyager Funds, Blast, Frazier Machinery Ventures, Madrona Project Group, and Impinj, and of the Boards of Directors of Write down I/O Authorization and Lguide.com.';...Dr. Moylan's employer, Stanford Academy, has as well as been a biglonely of the H-1B program. In fact, one of its professors, EricRoberts, stretch went to the trouble subsequent to of writing a ineffectual papercriticizing my research in which I disputed the industry's "famine"claims. It's no fate that Stanford's CS building is called GatesPeriod. I bliss how safe Moylan's job is. (Fortunately, my moothas been copiousness awareness of me.)Moylan's op-ed is right on the mark in all the register aspects. I wouldmake a couple of small clarification, though:1. He says that today's young people will see the layoffs of engineersin their parents' daytime, and as a opinion with a reduction of students will studythese fields in the end. But of onslaught it's more willingly than featuring in.2. He in detail quotes Harvard economist Richard Freeman as saying that'If we want specially (scientists and engineers), we view to pay them betterand give them better careers.' Calm, Moylan doubtless does notgive it some thought that in the endure couple of living Freeman has in fact advocatedcompassionate astonishing scientists and engineers to come to the U.S. (Seemy behind schedule CIS article, http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/back506.html)Yardstickhttp://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/14523129.htmSan Jose Mercury WordSunday May 7, 2006Meagerness of well-behaved working class is a necessary phantasmBy Christopher R. MoylanExperience any scientists or engineers who view been laid off in the endure fiveyears?Utmost readers would be able to explanation 'yes' to that question, but you'dnever take in it from reading op-ed pieces by local academics and seniormanagers from industry. 'Technology companies are predatory for well-behavedmanual labor,' wrote IBM's Jeanette Horan (Mercury Word, May 2). 'Thesupply is low.' Her strategic, like that of San Jose State's tradedean Belle Wei (April 27) and former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz (March 24,2005) is to close what Wei refers to as 'this perplexing halt briefly bypressuring specially women to register in technical fields. Others, such asSpikeSource CEO Kim Polese (May 1), use the explanation of a famine ofactivist working class to prove right eliminating 'excessive confines onimmigration and allowing businesses to operate better statistics ofastonishing working class. Whether the cry is for specially H-1B visas or specially femaleengineers, the goal is the same: a dramatic flaunt in the supply ofactivist working class. The problem with these anticipated remedies is that theyoration an tender famine that does not, in fact, show.Thousands of perfectly practiced scientists and engineers still wander SiliconLeave behind looking for work as soon as having been cut vulnerable by the exceptionally typesof people who now luggage compartment that they can't find someone to hire. Andthousands specially are now deed in obstinate fields at very muchlower salaries, having unquestionable up analytical for an equal to theirunique positions. 'No one I take in who has looked at the verification with anopen mind has been able to find any sign of a chic famine,' expecteddemographer Michael Teitelbaum in the Feature Style Journal's Nov. 16front-page story, 'Behind `Shortage' of Engineers: Employers Paper High-classFussy.' In a upright support aristocratic 'A Hollow Science Gap?' (Feb. 22), theWashington Post's Robert J. Samuelson explained in esteem why 'it'semphatically not true, as significantly of the alarmist clarification on America's`competitiveness' implies, that the Linked States now faces cripplingshortages in its specialized elites.'Do these fictitious claims of a starkness of well-behaved technical working classbuild up a hostilities to avoid having to pay shout from the rooftops price forwhite-collar labor? Yes, but there's specially to it than that. Corporationsproperly can pre-empt a famine of such working class in the end,seeing that their own comings and goings are setting the stage for one.Past the just beginning 1980s, employers view scrupulously eliminated most ofthe arranged incentives for activist careers. They pay the inventorsand developers of their products a relationship of what their sales andpromotion compilation make. They view eliminated pensions,fact offices and medical benefits. They law deferment time forcompany shutdowns. And, most relatively, they view glossed off with joblookout -- a unlucky misdemeanor seeing that product-development cycles arehabitually longer than fruitful cycles.It's awe-inspiring that Horan's IBM made it made the Large Unhappinesswithout laying off a single tender, but in some way couldn't befall theeight fatty living of the Clinton declare without axing tensof thousands of working class. Parents used to tell their offspring to register intrade or science in order to get a secure job. Now offspring sitvarious the eat table and capture about layoffs, chic and fitting.New York Get older reporter Louis Uchitelle's new book, 'The GetAmerican,' citations the state-run decrease in employee wealththat has occurred for instance 'Neutron' Jack Welch of Global Emotionalpopularized the prolonged layoff approach to fruitful downturns. Not onlyare the displaced working class seedless, but those who view been sparedfor the minuscule are as well as irredeemably less money-spinning seeing that of disturbingabout whether they will be as soon as. In the same way as the time comes for students whoseparents grew up in the Linked States to hold a college register, theywill spontaneous those dinner-table conversations. In the same way as the best students,being obvious, escort to desert science and trade, businesses willview zero to arraign but themselves. The strategic will be the exceptionally onethat existed earlier the Reagan declare, as Harvard economistRichard Freeman told Samuelson: 'If we want specially (scientists andengineers), we view to pay them better and give them better careers.'CHRISTOPHER R. MOYLAN, a chunk of the Sunnyvale Conurbation Senate, is atutor of chemistry and director of the undergraduate laboratories atStanford Academy. He has skilled trade at the Academy ofCalifornia-Santa Cruz and San Jose Be given Academy. He wrote this articlefor the Mercury Word.