[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

I am a middle-aged, non-union apprentice electrician, living in a right-to-work state. Too bad you have no idea what you are talking about.

I used to be competing with other college-educated people for two few jobs in finance and management. Common sense tells us to pursue work in states and in trades where there is the most demand.

I am enjoying my new occupation very much and I don't have to play office politics in some large corporation.

The greatest demand fields are in health care. Nursing, in particular, is a high demand field. I haven't heard of nursing being outsourced to India.

[numberonepal]

Thaks goodness the Indians are crappy graphic designers or I'd be in serious trouble. Good programmers, crappy designers.

[Black Agnes]

Nursing and medicine is being 'in'sourced from other countries as you type. Look at Southern California. They're importing Mexican doctors already. Wanna be they didn't pay as much for their degrees as you did yours? I know several Indian nurses and healthcare workers. H1B and L1 will have their equivalent in your field soon enough.

[USMMA_83]

Think again! Indian nurses and teachers are being recruited in India at an alarming rate. American's just don't want to get into the nursing and teaching professions. They all want to be wall street brokers, etc. All want easy money without having to learn biologoy, chemestry and calculus. That will be our downfall! The fact that the average highschool graduate does not know elementry statistics is a heads-up to everyone concerned. At some point, we decided that an MBA was the ideal, while a poor sob who studies Math, physics or Chemestry is a geek to be laughed at.

[meatloaf]

You obviously didn't read the NYT article about the Philipine government setting up effective ways of training amd enabling nurses to take jobs in other countries and sending the money home.

B O H I C A !

[meadsjn]

I haven't heard of nursing being outsourced to India.

A Legislative History of H-1B and Other Immigrant Work Visas

1990

The passage of the 1990 Immigration Act is often considered the day H-1B was born. Under the 1990 Act Visas for employment-based immigrants rose to 140,000 from the 58,000 cap established in 1976. The 1990 Act set an annual cap of 65,000 nonimmigrants entering the U.S. under H-1B visas. H-1B workers were given a 3 year visa with a possible extension for a total of six years. It specified that H-1B workers must hold at least a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in their specialty field. The Act also required employers to pay H-1B workers the prevailing wage. In addition, the 1990 Act created three other new visa categories for skilled temporary workers--the H-1A visa for nurses and O and P visas for prominent scientists, educators, artists, athletes and entertainers. [4] A cap of 25,000 visas per year was placed on the annual number of newly created "P visas" available for foreign workers in the entertainment industry. [14]

[nygoose]

I am glad you are fine. I may have no idea what I'm talking about, but I can sure speak for getting into one of those trades in, let's say Chicago. Right to work may be fine, but that doesn't get you the job. Are you denying that apprentice jobs are significantly more available to families of existing union members and selected minorities?

As far as non-union contractors even bidding on jobs, it is very difficult considering the use of so-called project labor agreements in some areas. So I guess I'm saying that unions are protective of their own and also exclusionary to types of people they don't favor.