Union Organizing in Silicon Valley

[Thomas Seay]

I work at Sun...I dont have any contact with the
janitors (they come around mostly at night when I am
not here), so I just presumed they were not unionized
as the food workers are not.

Thanks for the good info,

Thomas

--- Nathan Newman <nathan at newman.org> wrote:
> 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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