[ajug-members] Wipro coming to Atlanta

[Rob Worsnop]

On 8/2/07, Brian Whitfield / Essential Resources
<brian_whitfield at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>
> There are LOTS of reasons this is bad.  I'll give a big one - If there is a
> company in Atlanta that has hundreds of java developers working for rates
> typically below those of American workers - what do you think that does for
> rates/salaries, etc?  If all of a sudden the market is flooded with java
> people - what does that do for supply and demand?  This can and will affect
> the IT market in Atlanta.  It has to.


By that same logic, existing Atlanta-based employers should not be
allowed to relocate people from out of state.

>
> I'll be ok.  I'm not for total 'protectionism'.  I am also not for the 9-10
> companies that dominate the use of h1 visas under the guise they couldn't
> find any workers in America (of which Wipro is one of them).
>

A necessary and understandable guise, considering existing immigration
law. Me? I'm just glad I didn't have to demonstrate that I couldn't
find any American trucks before I bought my Nissan.