silicon workers seize the valley

[dudeness]

http://workers.labor.net.au/186/news7_silicon.html

Workers in San Jose have forced their local council to link public funding decisions to the creation of union jobs, health care and affordable housing.
In a breakthrough that sets the scene for NSW unions' push on state government purchasing policy, the South Bay Labour Council is redefining the way public spending decisions are made.

Amy Dean, in Australia to promote her Council's Union Cities program, highlighted the political achievements as key to a new and broader union agenda aimed at linking workers with the broader community.

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[izzie]

1. I do think membership in unions will go up. It is at a low

Look how workers are treated, and I think the union value will be seen and it will go up. I hope so as the workers need them. I could never understand how the people who put up the money got so much more important than the people who made the item.And please do not give me that old thing that no poor people make jobs. I hire my doctor, dentist, eye doctor, car repair man, and I could go on for hours to show you jobs even come from poor people.Not one of these people work for me for nothing.