H.R. 339 may have added only 350 slots for foreign workers when it passed the U.S. Senate but it gives a temporary answer to the CW-1 issue in the CNMI until it becomes law. Moreover, the Saipan Chamber of Commerce remains focused on providing a long-term solution to the issue.<\/p>\n
In a statement by the Chamber, it said that H.R. 339 has been instrumental \u201cin increasing awareness of our islands\u2019 plight as we lose long-time workers [but] the Chamber is focusing on our participation in efforts to provide a long- term fix.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Chamber statement repeated a call for all local- businesses to participate in the data collection project that will document the efforts that have been made to recruit and hire U.S. eligible workers, for submission to Congress.<\/p>\n
The data collection is an ongoing effort to show that the CNMI is doing its best to hire U.S. workers, to justify continuing the CW program.<\/p>\n
At a meeting last week, Chamber president Velma Palacios said the U.S. Senate has the impression that CNMI has made little effort to recruit non CW-1 workers, \u201cwhich is not true.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis data will be forwarded to\u2026the U.S. Congress to provide factual data regarding the earnest efforts to employ U.S. workers on our island,\u201d said Chamber executive director Jill Arenovski.<\/p>\n
In June this year, the Chamber showed its support to the Northern Marianas Business Alliance that was organized to help the CNMI government convince Congress to extend the CW-1 program.<\/p>\n
The NMBAC hired a lobbyist in Washington D.C. to push H.R. 339 and provisions that the CNMI government and businesses need to be able to sustain the economic growth of the CNMI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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