''Programmers Guild'' is an attorney-founded group intended to protect legal hi-tech immigrants to the United States and help them in obtaining

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s. ''The New York Times'' called them a

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and, in 2016, a " tech worker organization." It also serves as a job search ''clearing house''. It has been relaunched under the umbrella organizatio
United Information Workers
The Guild has been described as "a nonprofit group with a volunteer staff." It was founded in 1998, and won in a case it filed 2006 with the

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. The Programmers Guild was an active participant in various legislative hearings, and companies such as

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and

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supported them. Their use of the term

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was part of a CNN headline: "IT guild: A once and future union?" and the article evaluated the term ''union'', noting that computer professionals are already members of large long standing organizations such as

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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.

Kinship

Other organizations that have been compared to the Guild include '' WashTech''Washington Alliance of Technical Workers, or WASHTECH, an affiliate of the

and ''Bright Future Jobs''.

Book

Michelle Malkin's Sold Out (book), co-authored with the Guild's founder, uses the term ''crapweasel'' in the plural on the cover.

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did not do a book review on this Malkin book.Yet they praised her first hardcover book in 2009:

References

External links

Official website
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