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. That s when people were attracted to us, wanted to be part of us, wanted to be mobilized into action with us. Raj is one of those, on the fringes of the labor movement, who are bringing the moral voice back into our lives. A genuine moral voice, based on the problems of our lives. If we listen to the workers, talk with them, hear their demands, then we might be able to push forward to something better.