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While most of Silicon Valley’s tech corporations have stood by all of their tech workers, Verizon (which bought Yahoo) broke ranks by refusing to continue salary and health care benefits for almost 100 cafeteria workers in September.
Many of these workers have spent years serving Verizon, like Yessica Gonzalez. Yessica moved to the U.S. from El Salvador 13 years ago and is a single mom to her 3 year old daughter. For the past 3 years, she has worked as a barista at Yahoo’s Sunnyvale campus. Since being laid off, she has struggled to pay the bills, make rent, and cover the costs of childcare. In the middle of a public health pandemic and an ongoing housing crisis, unemployment is simply not enough to make ends meet and she worries about what the future holds. She knows she is not alone in these worries, as many of her co-workers are also struggling to support themselves and their families.
There are over 14,000 subcontracted service workers in Silicon Valley like Yessica who have organized together to secure better wages, health care coverage, and overall respect as integral parts of the tech sector. But Verizon has shown their true colors by treating their service workers as second-class.
While the organizing doesn’t stop, we’re coming together to provide much needed aid to workers like Yessica. As direct tech employees, we are coming together to stand with the people who cook, clean, and protect tech campuses because after all, we are one tech community and we must take care of each other.
Pay what you can. All funding will be distributed to the laid off workers.
Read more about the situation here: https://www.salon.com/2020/09/12/silicon-valley-service-workers-cafeteria-labor-conditions-tech-pandemic/
Many of these workers have spent years serving Verizon, like Yessica Gonzalez. Yessica moved to the U.S. from El Salvador 13 years ago and is a single mom to her 3 year old daughter. For the past 3 years, she has worked as a barista at Yahoo’s Sunnyvale campus. Since being laid off, she has struggled to pay the bills, make rent, and cover the costs of childcare. In the middle of a public health pandemic and an ongoing housing crisis, unemployment is simply not enough to make ends meet and she worries about what the future holds. She knows she is not alone in these worries, as many of her co-workers are also struggling to support themselves and their families.
There are over 14,000 subcontracted service workers in Silicon Valley like Yessica who have organized together to secure better wages, health care coverage, and overall respect as integral parts of the tech sector. But Verizon has shown their true colors by treating their service workers as second-class.
While the organizing doesn’t stop, we’re coming together to provide much needed aid to workers like Yessica. As direct tech employees, we are coming together to stand with the people who cook, clean, and protect tech campuses because after all, we are one tech community and we must take care of each other.
Pay what you can. All funding will be distributed to the laid off workers.
Read more about the situation here: https://www.salon.com/2020/09/12/silicon-valley-service-workers-cafeteria-labor-conditions-tech-pandemic/
Organizer
Vyas Savanur
Organizer
Cupertino, CA