This is a White Country. Don t protest. Work hard to make Asians successful. The anti-union dynamic of Silicon Valley runs along the same grain of the distorted nationalism of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. In the nation, 2.3 million workers toil in the high-tech manufacturing industry, the largest number of workers in any one sector.
Profits accrue from the toil of the workers.
And can you imagine in our Alice in Wonderland world, we think that computers beget computers, that ideas make profits. We also believe that computers are a clean industry, that they are sleek and not environmentally as ghastly as smokestack industry. Someone should tell this to the family of Rodrigo Cruz, who died of grievous brain damage at work in the Valley. Young people are in Silicon Valley, to organize. The article is about 37 year old Amy Dean, head of the AFL-CIO s Silicon Valley office.