Member Profiles
For the past seven years, Thelma Garza has been working as a ready-mix driver for Central Concrete in San Jose.
Currently, she’s working on the Park Project in downtown San Jose. She says that the developer got permission from the airport to go higher than previous height limits, so, at 50 stories, this will be the tallest building in the city. Her work as a ready-mix driver not only includes driving a concrete truck,
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Peter Finn, President
When we hear the term “outsourcing”, we might only think of offshoring—the practice of shipping American jobs out of the country. But outsourcing is much more than that. It also includes the subcontracting of jobs that were once done in-house to the lowest bidder and the privatization of our public services. And increasingly employers are attempting to outsource work through automation or replacing jobs with artificial intelligence (AI). Outsourcing in all its forms is the result of poor management and destroys middle-class jobs,
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