Programmers Guild Explained

Programmers Guild
Type:	Professional organization
Successor:	United Information Workers(UIW)
Website:	https://www.unitedinformationworkers.com/

Relaunched under the umbrella organization United Information WorkersProgrammers Guild^[1] is the name of 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]}

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] and Bright Future Jobs.^[16]

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.^[17]

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

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