KnightRidderGannett have decided to bust the unions in the newspaper industry. They picked the wrong city. but that was their decision. The fact of the matter is that at the CanadianDetroit border. they have begun picking up people coming in to work for KnightRidder and Gannett who are not American citizens. nor are they legal immigrants. We are trying to find out. there is an investigation going on where they are hearing about they can get jobs by coming across international borders to gain employment in a company whose own employees are out on strike. I find that objectionable. I hope that we do not continue the practice. We also have a situation in the H1B employers in which we find that they are bringing in even skilled workers. Example: Computer graduates from India who are displacing Americantrained computer people. Serious problem. serious problem. I find this when unemployment is still outrageously high in the United States. particularly in urban centers where there are areas in which there is 40 percent unemployment easily. So I would like to discuss and look more carefully at the instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers simply because the foreign workers are more inexpensively available. So this program that I refer to as the H1B program has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them. That is in the bill. it is objectionable. While we are on this subject.
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