From: "Linda Muller" <linda@buchanan.org>
To: brigade@zeus.wwol.com
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000
Subject: [BRIGADE] Perot: H1Bs and PNTR -- The Giant Silence
Dear Brigade, Robert Bowes (Chairman - Reform Party of Maryland)
makes an excellent point in his email below on the silence of Ross Perot
concerning PNTR.
Another concern was whether Perot Systems/EDS is sponsoring high-
tech, low-wage H-1B foreign workers either directly or indirectly through
labor contract firms. I didn't know whether Perot had been guilty of this,
but since he has kept a total silence on the H-1b issue it warranted
some investigation.
As it turns out, EDS/Perot systems is a very active importer of H-1B
foreign workers.
There is a H-1B Visa database on the web done by Rob Sanchez -
robsanz@worldnet.att.net
Its at the: H-1B Hall of Shame - the best site on the web for this issue:
http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B
Sanchez says his database increased in size from 69,029 to 69,177,
when he attached all of the Region 6 entries he had for EDS. He
currently has 69,177 LCAs (Labor Condition Applications) in his
database and says he has another 1,000,000 more ready to put online.
The "H-1B Hall of Shame" makes special note that Pat Buchanan is the
only candidate that has spoken against H-1B.
You can go to the H-1B Database and search for:
Company Name: perot
also try
Company Name: electronic data
http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/VisaDBQuery.asp
See article below on EDS cutting American jobs -- while they have
application requests in for H1Bs.
For the Cause, Linda
PS - I am very saddened by this information. Ross Perot has funded
hundreds of millions of medical research. He personally paid for
cosmetic and burn surgery for all those harmed in Desert Storm. He
financed the basic research on the Gulf War Disease. He was the lead
person in getting POWs back from Viet Nam. And of course, he created
the Reform Party. In numerous ways he has proved himself to be a true
American hero.
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Date sent: Wed, 24 May 2000
From: BBowes - bowesfunds@erols.com
Organization: Reform Party of Maryland
To: Linda Muller
Subject: That Giant Silence
Fellow Economic Nationalists:
General Motors slaps Ross Perot in the face with its one quarter page
pro-PNTR advertisement in the Washington Post on Tuesday. The ad
placed by Electronic Data Systems, the company formerly owned and
founded by our party founder and economic patriot Ross Perot, included
a plea that "Free trade will improve the standard of living for China's
people" and ends with the conclusion "Since China has agreed to play
by global rules, its in our own best interests to let them." EDS joins a
traitorous list of U.S. special interest groups and politicians that are
more worried about developing an entrepeneurial class in China than they
are about a gutted
U.S. middle class. EDS salivates over the remote chance that China
might happen to take a brief respite from its custom of spying on and
cloning western tech companies so that it might possibly begin to think
about maybe allowing one or two into their market. One can look to the
actions of Chinese and ethnic Chinese based in Indonesia to buy-off the
Commerce Department to lift prohibition on the export of strategic
technology such as those sold by Loral Corp to China, China's shoulder-
shrugging on intellectual property standards, and persecution of workers
as the kind of global rules China is planning to play by.
Yet Ross Perot maintains monastic silence while EDS is being used to
sell out America's economic self interest. Maybe the EDS purchase and
sale agreement had no limit on future political speech but, on the eve of
the most important trade vote in decades, certainly none is binding Mr.
Perot now.
Robert Bowes
Chairman - Reform Party of Maryland
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EDS quiet on extent of impending job cuts
Computer services firm hopes to reduce annual spending by $1 billion by
year's end
11/01/99 Page 1D
By Alan Goldstein / The Dallas Morning News
Ever since its last major round of involuntary job cuts was announced in
April, Electronic Data Systems Corp. has been warning employees that
it will slash an unspecified number of additional positions through the end
of this year as part of a cost-reduction plan....
As part of its earnings report issued late Thursday, EDS said it expects
to take a charge against earnings in the current quarter "of a similar
nature and size as the charge taken in the first quarter." Then, EDS took
a charge of $380 million and eliminated 5,200 jobs. Another 3,200 U.S. employees accepted an early retirement offer over the
summer. EDS employs 126,000 worldwide...
The company doesn't want employees starting off a new year worried
about whether they will keep their jobs, she said.
"It's important to put closure on this for Wall Street and for the people" Ms. Norwood said.....
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/1101biz1eds.htm
