Re: Apple and the Unionization of Silicon Valley
This is some of the best news I've heard in a long time. Wonder if I should do a Marketplace commentary about it and scare all the rentiers in the audience? Where could I find out more? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed, 26 Jan 1994, Nathan Newman wrote: > > PEN-Lers, > > Actually, Apple (against their will) has become a model employer of their > janitorial staff. After a massive mobilization by SEIU and their Justice > for Janitors campaign, including a threatened worldwide boycott of Apple > computer, Apple conceded to the unions demands. Apple forced its landlord > to hire a union contractor and Hewlett Packard almost immediately signed > union contracts without a fight. With Oracle (or rather its landlord) > agreeing to hire union workers with decent benefits, Silicon Valley is > almost 100% unionized in the janitorial sector. This is one of the most > dramatic accomplishments in unionization in many years. > > Following this success, SEIU has teamed up with a number of other unions > (HERE, the Teamsters, ACTWU, maybe a couple others) to begin a mass > community-wide organizing drive in San Jose. The unions involved > have deployed 20 organizers and fourteen apprentices from the AFL-CIO > Organizing Institute. Most innovatively, the unions are not beginning in > the workplace but starting door-knocking in the ethnic communities around > the area to create a mass community base as they target multiple > industries all at once. They are knocking on 1400 doors each day, 10,000 > doors a week. The goal is to build a mass community base, then blitz > low-wage service and light-manufacturing throughout the San Jose area. > > For me, it is one of the most exciting union campaigns in existence, > since it involved not only multi-union collaboration but a serious > application of community organizing as a method of union organizing. > > And much of this campaign is ultimately derived from the capitulation of > Apple Computer to the original community-based campaign against the company. > >** > *Nathan Newman: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > * UC-Berkeley * > > > On Wed, 26 Jan 1994, Jon Coifman wrote: > > > As long as we're at it, it should also be noted that Apple has a less than > > stellar record on union activities among the janitorial staff at its > > Cupertino, CA headquarters. Memory has not been kind regarding the > > datails, but my recollection is that the decision to dump a contract with a > > unionized maintance firm about a year and a half ago caused quite a flap. > > Perhaps somone on the net remembers the outcome. > > > > Jon Coifman, > > (via Macintosh) > > Austin, TX > > > > > >
Re: Apple and the Unionization of Silicon Valley
This is some of the best news I've heard in a long time. Wonder if I should do a Marketplace commentary about it and scare all the rentiers in the audience? Where could I find out more? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed, 26 Jan 1994, Nathan Newman wrote: > > PEN-Lers, > > Actually, Apple (against their will) has become a model employer of their > janitorial staff. After a massive mobilization by SEIU and their Justice > for Janitors campaign, including a threatened worldwide boycott of Apple > computer, Apple conceded to the unions demands. Apple forced its landlord > to hire a union contractor and Hewlett Packard almost immediately signed > union contracts without a fight. With Oracle (or rather its landlord) > agreeing to hire union workers with decent benefits, Silicon Valley is > almost 100% unionized in the janitorial sector. This is one of the most > dramatic accomplishments in unionization in many years. > > Following this success, SEIU has teamed up with a number of other unions > (HERE, the Teamsters, ACTWU, maybe a couple others) to begin a mass > community-wide organizing drive in San Jose. The unions involved > have deployed 20 organizers and fourteen apprentices from the AFL-CIO > Organizing Institute. Most innovatively, the unions are not beginning in > the workplace but starting door-knocking in the ethnic communities around > the area to create a mass community base as they target multiple > industries all at once. They are knocking on 1400 doors each day, 10,000 > doors a week. The goal is to build a mass community base, then blitz > low-wage service and light-manufacturing throughout the San Jose area. > > For me, it is one of the most exciting union campaigns in existence, > since it involved not only multi-union collaboration but a serious > application of community organizing as a method of union organizing. > > And much of this campaign is ultimately derived from the capitulation of > Apple Computer to the original community-based campaign against the company. > >** > *Nathan Newman: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > * UC-Berkeley * > > > On Wed, 26 Jan 1994, Jon Coifman wrote: > > > As long as we're at it, it should also be noted that Apple has a less than > > stellar record on union activities among the janitorial staff at its > > Cupertino, CA headquarters. Memory has not been kind regarding the > > datails, but my recollection is that the decision to dump a contract with a > > unionized maintance firm about a year and a half ago caused quite a flap. > > Perhaps somone on the net remembers the outcome. > > > > Jon Coifman, > > (via Macintosh) > > Austin, TX > > > > > >