Union Organizing in Silicon Valley

[Nathan Newman]

Actually, if you work in any of the major firms, Hewlett Packard, Sun,
Apple, etc., the janitors you see are almost all unionized, one of the most
successful campaigns of SEIU in the early 1990s.  Food workers have not had
similar success, although HERE has had success in cafeteria organizing in
other parts of the country and is working to build some national campaigns
against the national cafeteria chains.

Nathan Newman
nathan at newman.org
http://www.nathannewman.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Seay" <entheogens at yahoo.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:06 PM
Subject: Union Organizing in Silicon Valley

Have there been any attempts by organized labor to
unionize here in Silicon Valley?

I work here as an engineer but I am not talking about
unionizing that group (considering the level of
consciouness of most of them that might be
impossible),
I am talking  rather about the janitors, food workers,
etc that I see around me.

Thomas

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