''Programmers Guild'' is the name of 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''. 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

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

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and

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Membership

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, a career website, wrote in 2013 that most of the Guild's members are over age 40, and that "predominately" those involved in

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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

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Sold Out (book) ''Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers'' is a 2015 book authored by Michelle Malkin and John Miano, a displaced high-tech professional, author and attorney who spec ...

, 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:

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