Programmers Guild fears lame duck Congress will pass the Skil Bill

InfoWorld Tech Watch | InfoWorld | Programmers Guild fears lame duck Congress will pass the Skil Bill | November 10, 2006 10:03 AM | By Ephraim Schwartz: "Norman Matloff, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis called the bill an "unwarranted expansion of both the H-1B and employment-based green card programs."

Matloff refutes the claims of a high tech labor shortage.
"The impact of this bill on U.S. citizens and permanent residents in the tech field will be quite harmful," Matloff said, claiming salaries adjusted for inflation have been flat in high tech since 1999.

Berry proposes increasing the H-1B visa fee to $5,000 per year to subsidize the education of U.S. engineering students."