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DESCRIPTION:Workers Rights, Workers Lives, Organizing in Silicon Valley\nMillions of 
 workers have come to the Bay Area and Silicon Valley to work and live. The 
 conference will hear from workers who are fighting for union and worker 
 rights in Silicon valley from service workers to tech workers. While 
 billionaires are being made every year in Silicon Valley, the workers whose 
 labor provides their profits are facing extreme economic hardship, 
 struggling to survive. The unionization of thousands of contract workers at 
 companies such as Google, Apple, and Facebook has raised their living 
 conditions but the massive housing crisis and inability for workers to live 
 in Silicon Valley forces workers into their cars, spending hours commuting 
 on the road. At the same time the racist attack on immigrant workers, 
 including in Silicon Valley, is harming not just service workers but 
 immigrants from throughout the world who now work in the Valley. 
 Discrimination against their wives and families is escalating as xenophobia 
 grows. We will hear as well about how tech workers are working with service 
 workers to defend union and immigrant rights, and joining in solidarity.\n 
 Initial Speakers: Rebeca Armendariz, SEIU-USWW Senior Community Political 
 Organizer Bob Emmett, SEIU-USWW security guard Maria Gonzalez, Tech worker 
 who was sexually assaulted at work, Karthik Ramanathan, Immigrant Tech 
 Worker Ruth Silver Taube, Labor and Human Rights Lawyer Silicon Valley 
 Service Workers Tech Workers Coalition\n Sponsored by LaborNet.org, 
 LaborTech.net\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.seiu-usww.org/\nhttp://www.labornet.org/\nhttp://www.labortech.net/\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/wp/event/labortech-san-jose-silicon-valley/\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/17/18815733.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Conference on Organizing in Silicon Valley
LOCATION:SEIU United Service Workers West, 1010 Ruff Dr, San Jose, CA 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/17/18815733.php
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