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{{Infobox company
| name = Programmers Guild
| type = Professional organization
| successor = United Information Workers(UIW)
| website = https://www.unitedinformationworkers.com/
}}

Relaunched under the umbrella organization [https://www.unitedinformationworkers.com/ United Information Workers]{{short description|Organization to benefit (some) computer programmers}}
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'''''Programmers Guild'''''<ref name=NeedGreen2007NYT>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
  |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/technology/30iht-techlabor.1.8109819.html
  |title=Foreign tech workers protest over snarled visa issue
  |author=Juliana Barbassa |date=October 30, 2007 |access-date=August 30, 2022}}</ref> is the name of an [[Lawyer|attorney]]-founded group<ref name=CensOrNot2009NYT>{{cite news
|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2009/12/29/29idg-court-orders-three-h-1b-sites-disabled-83602.html
|title=Court Orders Three H-1b Sites Disabled
|author=Patrick Thibodeau |date=December 29, 2009 |access-date=August 30, 2022}}</ref> intended to protect legal hi-tech immigrants to the United States and help them in obtaining [[Green card]]s. ''The New York Times'' called them a [[trade group]]<ref name=ProGuild2001NYT>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
    |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/29/business/workers-and-bosses-in-a-visa-maze.html
    |title=Workers, and Bosses, in a Visa Maze
    |author=Leslie Wayne  |date=April 29, 2001 |access-date=August 30, 2022}}</ref> and, in 2016, a "[[Unionization in the tech sector|tech worker organization]]."<ref name=MichelleMalkinOKsTheGuy2016>{{cite news
|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/us/politics/donald-trumps-softened-stance-on-visas-alarms-some-immigration-critics.html
|title=Trump's Softened Stance on Visas Alarms Some Immigration Critics
|author=Julia Preston |date=March 5, 2016 |access-date=August 30, 2022}}</ref> It also serves as a job search ''clearing house''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clearing_house | title=Clearing house | date=August 27, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |magazine=[[PCWorld]] 
|url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/451656/veteran-tech-workers-see-themselves-locked-out-of-job-market.html
|title=Veteran tech workers see themselves locked out of job market
|author=Grant Gross |date=May 3, 2013 |access-date=August 31, 2022}}</ref>

The Guild has been described as "a nonprofit group with a volunteer staff."<ref name=BerryBuriesB1>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/business/12immig.html
|title=Tech Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Rules
|author=Matt Richtel |date=April 12, 2009 |access-date=August 30, 2022}}</ref><ref name=BerryBuriedB1B>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
   |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/technology/12iht-otech.4.17766126.html
   |title=Obama preparing comprehensive technology policy
   |date=November 11, 2012 |access-date=August 30, 2022}}</ref><!-- no By-Line on Nov.11'12 NYT --> It was founded in 1998,<ref name=IW1998>{{cite news |magazine=[[Information Week]]
|url=https://www.informationweek.com/it-strategy/high-five-meet-john-miano-founder-of-the-programmers-guild
|title=Meet John Miano, Founder Of The Programmers Guild
|date=February 2, 2007}}</ref> and won in a case it filed 2006 with the [[United States Department of Justice|US Department of Justice]].<ref>{{cite news |publisher=[[TheRegister]]
   |url=https://www.theregister.com/2008/05/02/h1_b_discrimination_doj_fine
   |title=DoJ beats up tech firm for H-1B only job ads
   |author=Gavin Clarke |date=May 2, 2008 |access-date=August 30, 2022}}</ref><ref name=MainframeCWcite>{{cite news |magazine=[[Computerworld]]
|url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2541956/h-1b-video-shocker---our-goal-is-clearly-not-to-find-a-qualified-----u-s--worker-.html
|title=H-1B video shocker: 'Our goal is clearly not to find a qualified ... U.S. worker'
|author=Patrick ThibodeauBy |date=June 19, 2007  |access-date=August 31, 2022}}</ref>

The Programmers Guild was an active participant in various legislative hearings,<ref name=Datamation2006>{{cite news |publisher=[[Datamation]]
  |url=https://www.datamation.com/careers/are-h-1b-visas-a-cog-in-the-offshoring-machine
  |title=Are H-1B Visas a Cog in the Offshoring Machine?
  |author=Sharon Gaudin  |date=April 14, 2006  |access-date=August 31, 2022}}</ref> and companies such as [[Intel]], [[Microsoft]] and [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]] supported them.<ref name=NeedGreen2007NYT/> Their use of the term [[guild]] was part of a [[CNN]] headline: "IT guild: A once and future union?"<ref name=CNNquestion2001>{{cite news |publisher=[[CNN]]
|url=https://www.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/05/09/itworkers.union.idg/index.html
|title=IT guild: A once and future union?
|author=Meridith Levinson |date=May 9, 2001 |access-date=August 31, 2022}}</ref> and the article evaluated the term ''union'', noting that computer professionals are already members of large long standing organizations such as [[Communications Workers of America]] 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://insights.dice.com/2013/05/15/programmers-gild-the-american-worker-needs-protection
|title=Programmers Guild: The American Worker Needs Protection
|author=Dawn Kawamoto |date=May 15, 2013 |access-date=August 31, 2022}}</ref>

==Kinship==
Other organizations that have been compared to the Guild include ''[[Washington Alliance of Technology Workers|WashTech]]''<ref name=WashtechNYT2005>{{citation |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
   |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/technology/cutting-here-but-hiring-over-there.html
   |title=Cutting Here, but Hiring Over There |date=June 24, 2005}}</ref><ref name=WashTechAcro>Washington Alliance of Technical Workers, or WASHTECH, an affiliate of the [[Communications Workers of America]]{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/biztech/articles/23unio.html
|title=Corporations Try to Bar Use of E-Mail by Unions}}</ref> and ''Bright Future Jobs''.<ref>{{cite news |magazine=[[PCWorld]] 
     |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/439577/us-tech-worker-groups-boycott-ibm-infosys-manpower.html
     |title=US tech worker groups boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower
     |author=Grant Gross |date=June 2, 2014 |access-date=August 31, 2022}}</ref>

==Book==
[[Michelle Malkin]]'s [[Sold Out (book)]], co-authored with the Guild's founder, uses the term ''crapweasel'' in the plural on the cover. [[The New York Times]] did not do a book review on this Malkin book.<ref>Yet they praised her first hardcover book in 2009: {{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
   |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/books/review/InsideList-t.html
   |title=Inside the List |date=August 6, 2009
   |quote=conservative firebrand Michelle Malkin enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 1 with "Culture of Corruption"}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.programmersguild.org Official website]

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