Engineers Union Wants To Know How Many Visa Workers Boeing Is Using

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/8256

04/03/08

By Doug Cunningham

The union representing engineers and technical workers at Boeing want to know how many technical workers Boeing is using through the federal immigrant worker visa programs. The Society of Professional Engineering Employees In Aerospace says it’s concerned that the drive to increase the number of foreign visa program workers takes jobs that Americans could be doing. Union executive director Ray Goforth says companies are adding visa program workers more from a drive to lower labor costs than from real need for the skills.