Immigrant Shift: The Changing California Workforce
Immigrant Shift
The Changing California Workforce
California has the seventh-largest economy in the world, and immigrants have a long history in building that prosperity. Today, one out of every three working people in California is an immigrant – and their share has grown in recent decades. Our economy is shaped by these workers and entrepreneurs – 6 million people who’ve found a job in the Golden State.
In our series “Immigrant Shift,” KQED and The California Report will explore the work they do, the challenges they face and the policies that affect them. How California's immigrant workers actually fare will mean a lot for the state's future.
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In March, Cupertino-based Apple made the same move. Bringing workers in-house generally means better wages and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in March, Google, which is based in Mountain View, gave its shuttle drivers wage increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600953\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10600953\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"A Google shuttle bus at the company's Menlo Park campus.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Google shuttle bus at the company’s Menlo Park campus. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corporations won’t talk about their wage policies and the current labor campaign in Silicon Valley. But observers say that Silicon Valley companies know they can’t ignore the organizing activity and public opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are being bludgeoned on these issues, and I don’t think anyone enjoys that,” said Russell Hancock, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.jointventure.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley,\u003c/a> a consortium of business and civic leaders. “I think they generally want to be a positive force, a societal force. We’re seeing the leading-edge companies looking creatively at these questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose City Councilman \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjdistrict2.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=171&Itemid=214\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a> said he sees a trend in tech companies directly hiring service workers or being more conscious of which contractors they hire, opting for more “responsible” ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no excuse in this valley to contract with companies that aren’t treating their employees well. No excuse,” said Kalra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara McDermott of Unite Here Local 19, which represents cafeteria workers, said unions want companies to work in unison with their contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we’re trying to get rid of the contracted companies,” said McDermott. “It’s more we need to show the companies that are paying for their services that they have to have a joint responsibility in making sure those employees of the contractors are treated fairly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many companies are still under fire for the treatment of the service workers on their campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/11/25/food-service-switch-at-intel-exposes-divisions-in-silicon-valley/\">Intel changed cafeteria vendors\u003c/a> last November. The new contractor didn’t retain the 70 employees who worked under the old manager. McDermott said Intel is responsible because it could legally have protected those workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a company changing contractors, Intel has the power to say, ‘Yes, we will give you the contract but we want you to hire the current workforce,’ ” said McDermott. “It was very disheartening to see a company that is in the midst of trying to talk about diversity at their own company have a group of primarily Spanish-speaking people of color who have good jobs just be fired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Intel spokesman declined comment, citing the company’s policy not to discuss issues related to its suppliers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Labor Council Executive Director Ben Field said competition among vendors bidding for jobs is the culprit for these kinds of worker dismissals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the problem is there’s a race to the bottom among contractors for service-sector work in high tech,” said Field. “And high-tech companies can stop that from happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, labor groups are pushing unionization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, shuttle bus drivers for Yahoo, Apple, Genentech, eBay and Zynga voted to join the Teamsters union. Drivers for Google did not, but the very next month the company gave drivers pay raises and better benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was that a tactic to keep the drivers from unionizing? Google spokeswoman Wendy Pauli said no, because workers have a right to organize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this case we were being competitive with the other wages and benefits being offered at other companies in the Bay Area,” said Pauli.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday July 21\u003c/strong>: Laszlo Bock, head of Google’s “people operations” (aka human resources), appeared on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> on Friday to discuss his book, “Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead.” Some listeners called in or emailed questions regarding unions and benefits for social workers. You can \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/17/google-exec-addresses-diversity-unions-and-benefits-for-service-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read excerpts\u003c/a> on his answers here or \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201507171000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listen to the program\u003c/a> here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is Part 2 of a two-part series on the growing labor movement in Silicon Valley over wages for service workers. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/14/growing-labor-movement-shakes-up-silicon-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Part 1 here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s tech giants are used to bottom-line pressures from their shareholders. Now they’re facing new pressures from the other side of the economic divide: low-wage service workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since February, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thenation.com/article/new-silicon-valley-movement-taking-tech-giants/\">a new labor campaign\u003c/a> called Silicon Valley Rising has been choreographing a movement to raise families out of poverty by pushing for livable wages, affordable housing and corporate responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of mostly immigrant shuttle drivers, janitors, cooks and maintenance workers have been regularly demonstrating for higher wages and benefits in front of tech companies and contractors’ offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, some big-name companies are beginning to improve the wages and benefits of service workers who keep their sprawling campuses running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months ago, for example, Menlo Park-based Facebook announced that service contractors with more than 25 employees must provide them with improved wages and benefits if they work a substantial number of hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The minimum wage is $15 an hour, 15 days of paid time off a year and a new $4,000 new-child benefit for both men and women,” said Lori Goler, a Facebook spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214840429&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Facebook’s website, Chief Operating Officer \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/03/04/10-things-sheryl-sandberg-gets-exactly-right-in-lean-in/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheryl Sandberg \u003c/a>posted, “This will give both women and men the flexibility to take paid parental leave, an important step for stronger families and healthier children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was Facebook’s pay increase prompted by labor activism?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve really been working on it awhile, and it sort of came from us and within,” said Goler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Google let go of its security guard contractor and hired the contractor’s employees directly. In March, Cupertino-based Apple made the same move. Bringing workers in-house generally means better wages and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in March, Google, which is based in Mountain View, gave its shuttle drivers wage increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600953\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10600953\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"A Google shuttle bus at the company's Menlo Park campus.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16019_IMG_1565-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Google shuttle bus at the company’s Menlo Park campus. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corporations won’t talk about their wage policies and the current labor campaign in Silicon Valley. But observers say that Silicon Valley companies know they can’t ignore the organizing activity and public opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are being bludgeoned on these issues, and I don’t think anyone enjoys that,” said Russell Hancock, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.jointventure.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley,\u003c/a> a consortium of business and civic leaders. “I think they generally want to be a positive force, a societal force. We’re seeing the leading-edge companies looking creatively at these questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose City Councilman \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjdistrict2.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=171&Itemid=214\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a> said he sees a trend in tech companies directly hiring service workers or being more conscious of which contractors they hire, opting for more “responsible” ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no excuse in this valley to contract with companies that aren’t treating their employees well. 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McDermott said Intel is responsible because it could legally have protected those workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a company changing contractors, Intel has the power to say, ‘Yes, we will give you the contract but we want you to hire the current workforce,’ ” said McDermott. “It was very disheartening to see a company that is in the midst of trying to talk about diversity at their own company have a group of primarily Spanish-speaking people of color who have good jobs just be fired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Intel spokesman declined comment, citing the company’s policy not to discuss issues related to its suppliers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Labor Council Executive Director Ben Field said competition among vendors bidding for jobs is the culprit for these kinds of worker dismissals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the problem is there’s a race to the bottom among contractors for service-sector work in high tech,” said Field. “And high-tech companies can stop that from happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, labor groups are pushing unionization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, shuttle bus drivers for Yahoo, Apple, Genentech, eBay and Zynga voted to join the Teamsters union. 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"content": "\u003cp>In East San Jose’s Mayfair Neighborhood, a young Cesar Chavez first started mobilizing farmworkers to get them better wages and working conditions. The area was then known as \u003cem>Sal Si Puedes, \u003c/em>meaning “get out if you can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the 1950s, and Chavez often drove a bus to the fields in Santa Clara County and brought back the fruit pickers to Mayfair’s Our Lady of Guadalupe Church to talk about labor organizing and voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was no coincidence that \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=the+nation+on+silicon+valley+rising\">a new labor campaign\u003c/a> was launched at the same church in February. This time the issue is the low wages of service workers who clean, cook and stand guard at the sprawling campuses of Silicon Valley’s tech giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Called \u003ca href=\"http://siliconvalleyrising.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Rising\u003c/a>, this coalition of labor unions, faith leaders and community-based organizations is orchestrating a campaign to raise families out of poverty by pushing for a livable wage, affordable housing and corporate responsibility. They are now highlighting the plight of service workers, the majority of which are immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/ftUeX6f_wzs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime South Bay labor activist Bob Brownstein says Silicon Valley Rising has symbolic parallels to the farmworkers movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The grape strike wasn’t just about grapes,” he says, referring to the 1965 Delano Grape Strike, when workers walked off farms demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage. “It was about the plight of the agricultural workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today “the struggles of security guards and cafeteria workers and shuttle drivers — it’s not just about them. It’s about a much larger low-wage sector that’s trapped in Silicon Valley,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign has resulted in hundreds of cooks, shuttle drivers, groundskeepers and maintenance workers staging nearly monthly demonstrations for higher wages and better benefits in front of high-profile tech companies and contractors’ offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wage-theft-legislation-20150421-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozens of workers rallied\u003c/a> outside the Capitol in Sacramento in support of wage and labor bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want corporations to hire responsible contractors,” says Rebeca Armendariz, a spokeswoman for SEIU United Service Workers West. “We want them held accountable for following labor law. For not ripping off their workers, for paying them honest and fair wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214697196&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wage demands for service workers isn’t a new issue. Twenty-five years ago, janitors in Santa Clara County mobilized for better wages and benefits in the “Justice for Janitors Campaign.” San Jose’s Cisco Systems Inc. was a major target, and the company eventually agreed to a union contract providing descent pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today’s organizers feel this labor movement is more broadly based, and that the volatile debate about growing \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/inequality-in-red-vs-blue-states-2015-7\">income inequality\u003c/a> is helping its cause. This campaign “is being viewed as a much larger problem because the level of inequality in the Silicon Valley — actually, the country — has gone rogue,” says Brownstein. “It’s no longer sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600580\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10600580 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Jon Pedigo of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church talks with service workers. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, a new study calculated \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/29/bay-area-income-gap-now-more-than-250000-between-top-and-bottom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the income gap\u003c/a> between the top and bottom Bay Area households at more than a quarter-million dollars, 50 percent higher than the gap nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, president of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a research think tank that did \u003ca href=\"http://siliconvalleyindicators.org/special-reports/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the report\u003c/a>, says the wage gap in this region is a stark situation for workers in the service sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They make this economy hum and their wages have been stagnant,” he says. “There’s no growth in their wages over a period of decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Rising took two years to get organized. Father Jon Pedigo, the pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, is one of the leaders who worked to hammer out a shared strategy for the campaign. He says extensive groundwork had to be laid down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t like, ‘Let’s all get on board and do this together.’ It was really through some meetings of getting people to listen, to talk to each other and kind of trust each other,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign is intended to focus attention on workers such as 33-year-old Maria, a cafeteria worker at Sunnyvale-based Yahoo. She doesn’t want to use her real name for fear of losing her job with Bon Appetit, the Palo Alto-based company Yahoo contracts with for food services. A single mother, she lives in a tiny trailer not far from Our Lady of Guadalupe Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get paid $12 an hour, and it is hard work for $12,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she pays for her trailer space — $700 a month — and other bills, she says she has barely $400 for food and to support her 15-year-old and 10-year-old daughters\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600521\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10600521 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"https://youtu.be/ftUeX6f_wzs\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Yahoo cafeteria worker says she has little money left after paying $700 a month for her trailer space and her bills. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her older daughter says her mother doesn’t have the time to participate in Rising Silicon Valley activities, but hopes the organizing will pay off in her workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She feels if she keeps working there, she’ll get paid more so she does have hope,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for comment on this story, both Yahoo and Bon Appetit emailed identical statements that said their contractors’ wages and benefits compare favorably with those across the food service industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the radio story aired on KQED and this blog post was published, a Yahoo spokeswoman emailed another statement that said there was a misunderstanding in sending the same statement as Bon Appetit. The spokeswoman said “fairness is a guiding principle at Yahoo and we are looking into this matter with Bon Appetit.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley companies are reluctant to discuss the issue of wages and their relationships with their service workers. And they refuse to discuss the recent labor agitation and organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they have to be aware of the increased activism. In February, for example, shuttle bus drivers for Yahoo, Apple, Genentech, eBay and Zynga voted to joined the Teamsters union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tech corporations have made a number of policy changes impacting service workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Mountain View-based Google gave pay raises to its shuttle drivers, who did not join the Teamsters. Also in March, Cupertino-based Apple brought contract security workers onto its payroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park-based Facebook in May said its contractors with more than 25 employees must pay them at least $15 an hour and provide sick leave and vacation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Goler of Facebook says the social media company increased wages and benefits because it was the right thing to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve really been working on it awhile, and it sort of came from us and our thinking about what’s important to us and our business and our community,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is Part 1 of two-part series on activists taking on tech companies over the wages of service workers. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/16/silicon-valley-firms-beginning-to-make-labor-concessions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 2\u003c/a> looks at how Silicon Valley corporations are responding.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In East San Jose’s Mayfair Neighborhood, a young Cesar Chavez first started mobilizing farmworkers to get them better wages and working conditions. The area was then known as \u003cem>Sal Si Puedes, \u003c/em>meaning “get out if you can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the 1950s, and Chavez often drove a bus to the fields in Santa Clara County and brought back the fruit pickers to Mayfair’s Our Lady of Guadalupe Church to talk about labor organizing and voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was no coincidence that \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=the+nation+on+silicon+valley+rising\">a new labor campaign\u003c/a> was launched at the same church in February. This time the issue is the low wages of service workers who clean, cook and stand guard at the sprawling campuses of Silicon Valley’s tech giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Called \u003ca href=\"http://siliconvalleyrising.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Rising\u003c/a>, this coalition of labor unions, faith leaders and community-based organizations is orchestrating a campaign to raise families out of poverty by pushing for a livable wage, affordable housing and corporate responsibility. They are now highlighting the plight of service workers, the majority of which are immigrants.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ftUeX6f_wzs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ftUeX6f_wzs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime South Bay labor activist Bob Brownstein says Silicon Valley Rising has symbolic parallels to the farmworkers movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The grape strike wasn’t just about grapes,” he says, referring to the 1965 Delano Grape Strike, when workers walked off farms demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage. “It was about the plight of the agricultural workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today “the struggles of security guards and cafeteria workers and shuttle drivers — it’s not just about them. It’s about a much larger low-wage sector that’s trapped in Silicon Valley,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign has resulted in hundreds of cooks, shuttle drivers, groundskeepers and maintenance workers staging nearly monthly demonstrations for higher wages and better benefits in front of high-profile tech companies and contractors’ offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wage-theft-legislation-20150421-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozens of workers rallied\u003c/a> outside the Capitol in Sacramento in support of wage and labor bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want corporations to hire responsible contractors,” says Rebeca Armendariz, a spokeswoman for SEIU United Service Workers West. “We want them held accountable for following labor law. For not ripping off their workers, for paying them honest and fair wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214697196&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wage demands for service workers isn’t a new issue. Twenty-five years ago, janitors in Santa Clara County mobilized for better wages and benefits in the “Justice for Janitors Campaign.” San Jose’s Cisco Systems Inc. was a major target, and the company eventually agreed to a union contract providing descent pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today’s organizers feel this labor movement is more broadly based, and that the volatile debate about growing \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/inequality-in-red-vs-blue-states-2015-7\">income inequality\u003c/a> is helping its cause. This campaign “is being viewed as a much larger problem because the level of inequality in the Silicon Valley — actually, the country — has gone rogue,” says Brownstein. “It’s no longer sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600580\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10600580 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Jon Pedigo of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church talks with service workers. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, a new study calculated \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/29/bay-area-income-gap-now-more-than-250000-between-top-and-bottom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the income gap\u003c/a> between the top and bottom Bay Area households at more than a quarter-million dollars, 50 percent higher than the gap nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, president of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a research think tank that did \u003ca href=\"http://siliconvalleyindicators.org/special-reports/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the report\u003c/a>, says the wage gap in this region is a stark situation for workers in the service sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They make this economy hum and their wages have been stagnant,” he says. “There’s no growth in their wages over a period of decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Rising took two years to get organized. Father Jon Pedigo, the pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, is one of the leaders who worked to hammer out a shared strategy for the campaign. He says extensive groundwork had to be laid down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t like, ‘Let’s all get on board and do this together.’ It was really through some meetings of getting people to listen, to talk to each other and kind of trust each other,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign is intended to focus attention on workers such as 33-year-old Maria, a cafeteria worker at Sunnyvale-based Yahoo. She doesn’t want to use her real name for fear of losing her job with Bon Appetit, the Palo Alto-based company Yahoo contracts with for food services. A single mother, she lives in a tiny trailer not far from Our Lady of Guadalupe Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get paid $12 an hour, and it is hard work for $12,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she pays for her trailer space — $700 a month — and other bills, she says she has barely $400 for food and to support her 15-year-old and 10-year-old daughters\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600521\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10600521 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"https://youtu.be/ftUeX6f_wzs\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Yahoo cafeteria worker says she has little money left after paying $700 a month for her trailer space and her bills. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her older daughter says her mother doesn’t have the time to participate in Rising Silicon Valley activities, but hopes the organizing will pay off in her workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She feels if she keeps working there, she’ll get paid more so she does have hope,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for comment on this story, both Yahoo and Bon Appetit emailed identical statements that said their contractors’ wages and benefits compare favorably with those across the food service industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the radio story aired on KQED and this blog post was published, a Yahoo spokeswoman emailed another statement that said there was a misunderstanding in sending the same statement as Bon Appetit. 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"content": "\u003cp>Fausto Hernandez Garcia has been working at carwashes around L.A. since arriving from Mexico without papers around 10 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The model of cars he lathers and vacuums each day may change. But his hourly pay has mostly stayed the same — right around the state minimum wage of $9 an hour. 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He asked that we use just his first name because he’s undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pablo stitches together women’s clothing in one of downtown L.A.’s many garment factories. He worries that bosses like the one he works for will shut down or move if forced to pay workers more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pablo earns a little over the $7.25 hourly federal minimum wage, which means his boss is already breaking the law. Employers in California must pay the higher state minimum of $9 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, the truth is, there’s no hope for us. It wouldn’t help if they were to raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour,” says Pablo. “We’re not guaranteed anything. I think that all the factory owners, they’re in union. And there’s no unity among us (workers).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why tougher wage and workplace enforcement is key, says Flor Rodriguez, an organizer at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cleancarwashcampaign.org/\">Clean Carwash Campaign\u003c/a>. 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These workers are particularly vulnerable to wage theft and other mistreatment by their employers, according to one national study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, several California laws went into effect to give undocumented immigrants greater protections in the workplace. Additionally, the state Supreme Court recently ruled that such workers have the legal right to sue their employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexican immigrant Jose Reyes is one undocumented worker who has faced abuse on the job. I met him at the Men’s Day Labor Program and Women’s Collective on Cesar Chavez Street in the Mission. Like dozens of men who go to the center, he is seeking work in jobs like construction and landscaping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes says he was mistreated on the job years ago when he worked as a dishwasher in a pizzeria. The owner bullied the workers, called them names and threw utensils at them. Reyes asked a lawyer about suing and was told employers have the right to yell at their workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Reyes doesn’t want to talk on tape about a more recent experience -- when a local restaurant refused to pay him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to think about what you talk about because it could lead to problems tomorrow,” he says. “I’m not going to say it’s Mafia, but the communities are small and everyone knows each other. All the restaurants know each other. If I have a problem with one, they will tell another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A survey by the National Employment Law Project found that 76 percent of undocumented immigrants have worked without being paid and 37 percent received less than minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the California laws that went into effect this year, those workers have new protections. Now a business that reports an undocumented worker to authorities as retaliation can \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0651-0700/sb_666_bill_20131005_chaptered.pdf\">lose its license\u003c/a>. An individual that retaliates in this way can face a \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/asm/ab_0501-0550/ab_524_bill_20131005_chaptered.pdf\">criminal extortion charge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills passed without opposition from business groups. Immigrant rights attorney Chris Ho supported the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It only makes sense to have all workers, undocumented or not, on an equal legal footing because, if it were otherwise, then unscrupulous employers would have a financial incentive to seek out undocumented workers because they could abuse those workers with impunity,” Ho says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/166815749\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the California Supreme Court ruled that undocumented workers can \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S196568.PDF\">sue their employers, even if they used false papers\u003c/a> to get the job. The case began when Vicente Salas sued the pool-cleaning company where he worked as a seasonal laborer for many years. He claimed he was not rehired because he filed a workers' compensation claim after getting hurt on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ho argued the case before the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the Salas decision does is to remove one very practical obstacle to people’s cases going forward, which is the employer argument that, well, since you got your job using a false ID, you are not entitled to these rights and remedies,” Ho says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pool-cleaning company countered that because Salas was never legally entitled to the job, he shouldn’t be able to sue. The company’s attorney, Arnie Wolf, says the court’s decision conflicts with federal immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for most people, unless you have got a strong ideological bent, the concept that a company could be liable for wrongfully failing to hire someone who is not even legally entitled to work in this country is absurd,” Wolf says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to a 12-year old \u003ca href=\"http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-1595.ZS.html\">U.S. Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> that prohibits the National Labor Relations Board from awarding back pay to undocumented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By allowing an undocumented worker to get compensatory damages, you are condoning violations of federal immigration policy and that’s wrong,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agricultural and construction industries that rely on undocumented workers have stayed on the sidelines, both on the court and legislative front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant rights advocates, meanwhile, hope the changes in the law will lead more workers to speak out. Workers like Juan Perez. His boss threatened him with a gun when Perez confronted him about getting paid. Perez then filed a complaint with state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I am undocumented, it doesn’t mean they can do what they want with me. Threaten me. Or discriminate against me,\" he says. \"There are laws for everyone. All over the world. When you don’t speak up, your voice isn’t heard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Perez says many people are still silent. As record numbers of immigrants are deported, many fear speaking out -- even as new laws ensure they are protected when they do.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwE4dDISldY?rel=0&w=640&h=360]\u003cem>Leticia Sanchez hopes learning computer science will help her land a high-paying career that will let her support her family, and allow her mother to stop working in the lettuce fields. Video by Jeremy Raff.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">R\u003c/span>ogelio Mendoza mows the front lawn outside his family’s modest home in Salinas. 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Alonso joins his dad during the summers spending long hours picking lettuce and strawberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get home … and you don’t even want to talk to nobody,” Alonso recalls. “I would fall asleep on the floor … then wake up and it’s already time to go back to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experiencing that kind of manual labor motivated Alonso to graduate from high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says teenagers who drop out of school tend to work in three places: the mall, a fast-food restaurant or the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Young people) don't see themselves doing something big in life,\" he says. \"They get paid $10 an hour and they settle for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alonso refuses to settle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a year ago, he was registering for his classes at Hartnell College when he learned about the \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/csitin3/\" target=\"_blank\">Computer Science and Information Technology-In-3 Program\u003c/a>, an accelerated degree program specifically for students of farmworker families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In partnership with California State University, Monterey Bay, Hartnell is promising a bachelor’s degree in computer science in just three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"a3a8c35d23cb79bc87033ae6c3afe1ec\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso applied and was accepted. His mother ensays it was like winning the lottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years the family has been hustling hard to earn more money. Norma was able to secure a real estate license several years ago, but hasn’t been able to find steady work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogelio tried to work in construction, but then the recession hit and he returned to the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea was to give our kids a nice place to live, a nicer house, a nicer future,” says Norma. “But the economy went down and we couldn’t find a good job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past five years the family has been living on Rogelio's farmworker wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the pressure is on Alonso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He joins 32 other students who spend 40 or more hours a week at Hartnell and CSU-Monterey Bay, cramming four years of computer science instruction into just three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instructors say these young people face a steep learning curve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the students have not mastered calculus, a skill needed for this line of work, and others still need remediation in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instructors say another challenge is the lack of academic support at home to help them with understanding programming languages and algorithms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Daniel Diaz says his dad thought computer science was about fixing computers. \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I'm at home, I'm by myself,” Diaz says. “My mom always asks me, ‘Why are you always in your room and on your computer?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Program organizers admit the academic experience can be isolating, which is why they keep students together as much as possible during the school day. 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"content": "\u003cp>As Congress takes up comprehensive immigration reform, people from different walks of life will have to come together for the effort to succeed. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201304040850/a\">California\u003c/a>, no two places illustrate the bridges that must be built better than Silicon Valley and the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet it's proving difficult for high tech and agriculture to span the divide. These neighbors have not even met with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Exceptional Immigrants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93408\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/medina-sadikov.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93408 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/medina-sadikov-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Jetlore founders Monste Medina and Eldar Sadikov. 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High tech told Congress their workers were more valuable, and they won lawmakers' support to move their bill forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunha said that point left a lingering impression that Silicon Valley does not care about the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They only worry about them, and they don't worry about the rest of the country,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many immigration advocates describe this round of reform as distinct from prior ones because interest groups are forming alliances across class, ethnicity and geography. There are regular meetings among ministers, police, restaurants, unions and chambers of commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really comprehensive,\" Cunha said, echoing the name of the campaign for comprehensive immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does not mean, however, that Cunha is talking with technology leaders. Asked if he's reaching out or visiting anyone in neighboring Silicon Valley, Cunha flipped the question: \"Why haven't they come to the San Joaquin Valley? Because they're better than us!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Technology Companies Form a Lobby\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intel Corp. Policy Director Peter Muller has a different take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We haven't really coordinated message because it's a different set of issues,\" Muller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he has not met with farmers because he's busy meeting with other tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2007, during the last round of immigration reform discussions, Microsoft and Intel's then-CEO Andrew Grove were outspoken advocates for visas. But the industry as a whole did not engage in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"The power players in Silicon Valley are not particularly concerned -- maybe not concerned at all -- about the so-called unskilled immigrants. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As Congress takes up comprehensive immigration reform, people from different walks of life will have to come together for the effort to succeed. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201304040850/a\">California\u003c/a>, no two places illustrate the bridges that must be built better than Silicon Valley and the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet it's proving difficult for high tech and agriculture to span the divide. These neighbors have not even met with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Exceptional Immigrants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93408\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/medina-sadikov.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93408 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/medina-sadikov-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Jetlore founders Monste Medina and Eldar Sadikov. (Jetlore)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jetlore founders Montse Medina and Eldar Sadikov. (Courtesy of Jetlore)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jetlore.com/\">Jetlore\u003c/a> is a startup in Sunnyvale that uses algorithms to read the slang in Facebook and Twitter posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founders Montse Medina and Eldar Sadikov are from Spain and Russia, respectively. They are both 28-year-old Stanford University graduates and award-winning authors in artificial intelligence. The office feels like a mini-United Nations, with about a dozen employees from countries that include Romania, Ukraine, Mexico and the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina said that for years they've been \"dealing with this immigration hell\" and even had to incorporate the business early just to qualify for visas.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their brainpower, Medina and Sadikov are here as temporary guests. They do not have green cards, which are granted to permanent residents. That's a problem they share with millions of immigrants who are at the low end of the economic spectrum—the kind of people who do service-sector jobs or agricultural work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sadikov rejects being compared with a grape picker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think I made more impact,\" Sadikov says. \"I think I did more good things for this country. In a way, I deserve to be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Other Valley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manuel Cunha, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.niseifarmersleague.com/\">Nisei Farmers League\u003c/a> in Fresno, finds that exceptionalism insulting. He says Silicon Valley types might know complex math but don't \"know a thing about how to prune a grapevine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies' Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/21/is-silicon-valley-losing-its-foreign-talent/\">Why Silicon Valley Is Losing Foreign-Born Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cunha works with Central Valley farmers who grow grapes, oranges and cotton. He has campaigned for immigration reform since the Reagan years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunha recalled a tense moment in 1996. Agriculture and high tech both wanted visas. High tech told Congress their workers were more valuable, and they won lawmakers' support to move their bill forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunha said that point left a lingering impression that Silicon Valley does not care about the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They only worry about them, and they don't worry about the rest of the country,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many immigration advocates describe this round of reform as distinct from prior ones because interest groups are forming alliances across class, ethnicity and geography. There are regular meetings among ministers, police, restaurants, unions and chambers of commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really comprehensive,\" Cunha said, echoing the name of the campaign for comprehensive immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does not mean, however, that Cunha is talking with technology leaders. Asked if he's reaching out or visiting anyone in neighboring Silicon Valley, Cunha flipped the question: \"Why haven't they come to the San Joaquin Valley? Because they're better than us!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Technology Companies Form a Lobby\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intel Corp. Policy Director Peter Muller has a different take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We haven't really coordinated message because it's a different set of issues,\" Muller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he has not met with farmers because he's busy meeting with other tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2007, during the last round of immigration reform discussions, Microsoft and Intel's then-CEO Andrew Grove were outspoken advocates for visas. But the industry as a whole did not engage in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"The power players in Silicon Valley are not particularly concerned -- maybe not concerned at all -- about the so-called unskilled immigrants. As soon as you say 'unskilled,' people think poor, uneducated, underachieving.\" --Stanford law Professor Dan Siciliano\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now companies are \u003ca href=\"http://www.technet.org/over-100-leading-tech-executives-urge-president-obama-and-congress-to-enact-high-skilled-immigration-reform/\">petitioning Congress\u003c/a> and organizing a virtual march on Washington, called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marchforinnovation.com/\">March for Innovation\u003c/a>. Facebook is hiring additional lobbyists for the immigration reform campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Silicon Valley, tech companies, realize government is part of what they have to deal with, like it or not,\" Muller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalled his own tense moment in 2012. Intel wanted additional visas for Indian and Chinese workers. 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And if the pieces ... important to us are included in a broader bill that has other things in it, that's something we'll be supportive of,\" Muller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using the Tech Lobby\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/02/13/116328/rep_lofgren_sees_hope_for_immigration_reform?category=bay+area\">Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren\u003c/a> (D-San Jose) is a lead negotiator for the House on a bipartisan bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93430\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/central-valley-farmworkers.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93430 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/central-valley-farmworkers-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Workers harvest tomatoes southeast of Fresno. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91911\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 264px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91911\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Bahl-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kumal Bahl returned to India after being educated in the U.S. because he could not get a working visa.\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kunal Bahl returned to India to launch a business because he could not get a working visa in the U.S. (Photo courtesy of Snapdeal)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As immigration laws make it harder for foreigners to stay and work in the U.S., Silicon Valley is losing some of its most promising talent — and its unrivaled reputation as ground zero for tech innovation. Those who came here for education or to take a stab at fame and fortune are no longer waiting around for a local job and visa to start their careers. They’re going home — to India, China, Brazil, or other countries courting them. With the growth of global tech hubs and the capital available abroad, some immigrant entrepreneurs are wondering why they should bother to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kunal Bahl, who got his engineering and business degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, made money on campus by charging students to watch cricket games. Bahl was hired at Microsoft for what he calls a “super-exciting” role traveling the globe, selling their products in Asia and Latin America. Bahl’s steady climb was halted in 2007, after his professional H1B visa was not chosen in the immigration lottery system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bahl didn’t pine to stay in the U.S. He declined Microsoft’s offer to place him in another country and try again. After losing the lottery, Bahl was ready to place a new bet.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe the time is now getting to a point where it would be right to start a business in India,” Bahl said. “Earlier than that, there was just no meaningful internet penetration to start a technology business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, at age 29, Bahl is the CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://www.snapdeal.com\">Snapdeal\u003c/a>, India’s largest e-commerce company (much like eBay) and employs more than 1,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#Countries\">How Other Countries Are Vying for Foreign Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#Chile\">Meet the Chile-con Valley Entrepreneurs\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the global market, two big shifts have made it possible for Bahl’s business to grow: First, people in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East are going online and buying things at breakneck speed, and what were considered “developing countries” are now called “emerging markets.” Secondly, it’s a lot cheaper to build an internet company than say, a semiconductor plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a wave, and this wave is not stopping,”Bahl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AMERICAN INVESTORS FOLLOW THE TALENT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American money is following the foreign talent. Leading venture capitalists are opening offices in Asia and Latin America in order to more easily scout start-ups, and funds that buy start-ups are promoting foreigners to be partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91957\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.geeksonaplane.com\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-20-at-9.23.49-PM-300x157.png\" alt=\"Geeks On a Plane takes tech entrepreneur across the world to look for new opportunities.\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geeks On a Plane takes tech entrepreneurs across the world to look for new opportunities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley investor Dave McClure is eager to invest. McClure is the captain of a global expedition he calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.geeksonaplane.com/\">Geeks On A Plane:\u003c/a> “Fifty crazy people from all over the globe, having fun, learning about technology and meeting new friends,” as he explains in his promotional video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve known for a long time that capital is global and money knows no borders. The difference now is that Americans like McClure are warming up to start-ups founded and based outside the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies’ Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/on-immigration-high-tech-and-ag-dont-meet-literally/\">On Immigration, High Tech and Ag Don’t Meet, Literally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Christen O’Brien, who does market research on the Geeks’ upcoming tour sites, says that when she started in the tech industry in 2006, “venture capital firms wouldn’t invest in start-ups in New York. That was too far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure, who just returned from India, where he took a gang of investors and technologists to visit Bahl’s company Snapdeal and newer ones, estimates “at least 25 percent of our investment strategy is probably outside the U.S. and that’s probably growing to 50 percent over the next two or three years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean McClure is done with America. Silicon Valley is his home, and he wants this round of immigration reform to make it easier for foreign tech entrepreneurs to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years McClure and fellow investors have pushed for a new brand of visas, dubbed Start-up Visas, with the premise that it will help stop the so-called “Reverse Brain Drain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The visa, now part of the immigration reform debate in Congress, would allow foreign entrepreneurs who start businesses in the U.S. to stay, so long as they generate revenue, have American investors and employ others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in fact, the crazy thing is after we tried to announce these ideas, other countries copied the idea and passed legislation before we did,” McClure said. “And we’re still sitting here with our thumbs up our asses, trying to get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OTHER COUNTRIES LURE ENTREPRENEURS\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chile got it done, thanks to a Chilean citizen educated at Stanford Business School. During his master’s program, Nicolas Shea noticed that many of his fellow students couldn’t get visas to stay in the U.S. After Chile’s earthquake in 2010, Shea talked his government into courting America’s visa rejects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.startupchile.org\">Start-Up Chile,\u003c/a> a tech incubator, gives entrepreneurs $40,000 to build their companies. Unlike American investors, the government does not take a share of the new companies in exchange for the cash. Unlike America’s start-up visa proposal, the companies do not have to employ others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re giving taxpayers money to people who don’t vote here, and people who are not forced to hire local talent,” said spokeswoman Maitetxu Larraechea. “We don’t force them to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A webcam tour of the Santiago hub showed that the startup workplace is much like a bunker: two big rooms with 20-something-year-olds hunched over laptops, writing code for their various Internet start-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91960\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-91960\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Gitu-Malwani1-150x150.png\" alt=\"Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani,moved from the U.S. to Chile for better opportunities.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani moved from the U.S. to Chile for better opportunities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani, who hopped on the webcam to share his story, said he worked in the U.S. for five years, and decided to come to Chilecon Valley — yes, that’s what they call it here — because he got tired of being the foreign worker for someone else’s company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Am I going to wait 10 more years in Corporate America to get a Green Card when I can go anyplace else in the world like Chile, where they want us to come and start business and give us money to do it?” Melwani said. “Hell yeah, I’m going to Chile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investor McClure said that Americans should not be cavalier about our lead in the technology race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s 6.7 billion people who don’t live in the U.S.,” McClure said. “A lot of those people are smart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure is taking his geeks to Southeast Asia next. Though he hasn’t seen a tech hub that compares to home yet, McClure guesses that within 20 years, it’s entirely possible that a Chilecon Valley will overtake Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click play to hear the story from \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201303210850/c\">The California Report\u003c/a> on how immigration law is impacting Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/84287393″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003ca name=\"Countries\">HOW OTHER COUNTRIES ARE VYING FOR FOREIGN TALENT\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the global economic crisis, many countries have been courting foreign entrepreneurs. From the U.K. to Chile, American citizens are among the largest applicant pool. Take a look at who’s in the game:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ctable border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Country\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">\u003cstrong>Description\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>United Kingdom\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2008, the UK gave foreign nationals a fast track to citizenship through its ‘entrepreneur visa’ program. If in 3 years the entrepreneur creates 10 permanent jobs in the UK or generates at least £5m in income, she can stay without bars to working. The UK program is small, with under 500 visas granted in the year ending June 2012. Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/553d1c5e-7d0a-11e2-8bd7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2O0jsaUar\">Financial Times\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>New Zealand\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2009, New Zealand created a fast track to permanent residence for entrepreneurs who have been self-employed there for at least two years and benefited the country through investment money or job creation. Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migrant/stream/invest/entrepreneur/\">Immigration New Zealand\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Chile\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">Following Chile’s earthquake in 2010, the government launched a development program to give visas and $40,000 to entrepreneurs. The government does not take any ownership stake in the start-up, but requires the immigrant to give classes to natives on entrepreneurship. Source: \u003ca href=\"http://startupchile.org\">Startup Chile\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Canada\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">This year Canada begins giving permanent residency to an estimated 2750 start-up entrepreneurs and their families. Qualified applicants must speak English or French, and get an approved Canadian investor to commit seed funding.Source: \u003ca href=\"http://startupvisa.ca/\">Start Up Visa Canada \u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Australia\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2012, Australia revamped its visa program to admit immigrants with demonstrated business experience. To stay permanently, the entrepreneur has to generate income and create 2 new jobs within 3 years — or 5 years with support from state/territory of residence.Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=896\">Australian Visa Bureau and Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Ireland\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2012, Ireland began taking visa applications from foreign entrepreneurs. Citizens outside the European Union with a start-up idea and funding of at least €75,000can get residency in five-year tranches. Ireland’s Ministry says it didn’t set job creation targets because “such businesses can take some time to get off the ground.” Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/INIS/Pages/New%20Programmes%20for%20Investors%20and%20Entrepreneurs%5D%5D\">Irish Naturalization and Immigration Service\u003c/a>.\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=896\">Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a> has written a lot about Start-Up Visa efforts around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca name=\"Chile\">MEET THE CHILE-CON VALLEY ENTREPRENEURS\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-92030\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Aljosha-Novakovic-150x150.png\" alt=\"Aljosha Novakovic\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">Aljosha Novakovic calls himself “Yosh” because no matter where he lives, he says “no one can pronounce my name.” The Serbian-American is a U.S. citizen who grew up in San Jose, studied psychology at U.C. Santa Barbara, and headed to Chile to build Medko – a global health network of patients and doctors. Many of the foreign entrepreneurs being courted by countries like the UK and Chile are American citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-92029 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Carlos-Gonz%C3%A1lez--150x150.png\" alt=\"Carlos González\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">Carlos González de Villaumbrosia, a citizen of Spain, got his MBA at U.C. Berkeley and worked for a Silicon Valley start-up. Gonzalez says he went to Chile because “Latin America is blowing up like crazy,” and Santiago is a good place to expand his business. Gonzalez is building Floqq, a marketplace for online courses in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-92031 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Gitu-Malwani2-150x150.png\" alt=\"Jeetu Melwani\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">Jeetu Melwani, an Indian citizen, is building keeZILLA, a site that uses algorithms to change how people shop online. Melwani says he lived in the US for five years before coming to Santiago, and could not find a way to start a business in the US while keeping his legal status. He’s nostalgic for Los Angeles, and recalls when a friend visited from back home, they rented a 350Z Nissan sports car and “ripped it all over town.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a wave, and this wave is not stopping,”Bahl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AMERICAN INVESTORS FOLLOW THE TALENT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American money is following the foreign talent. Leading venture capitalists are opening offices in Asia and Latin America in order to more easily scout start-ups, and funds that buy start-ups are promoting foreigners to be partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91957\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.geeksonaplane.com\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-20-at-9.23.49-PM-300x157.png\" alt=\"Geeks On a Plane takes tech entrepreneur across the world to look for new opportunities.\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geeks On a Plane takes tech entrepreneurs across the world to look for new opportunities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley investor Dave McClure is eager to invest. McClure is the captain of a global expedition he calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.geeksonaplane.com/\">Geeks On A Plane:\u003c/a> “Fifty crazy people from all over the globe, having fun, learning about technology and meeting new friends,” as he explains in his promotional video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve known for a long time that capital is global and money knows no borders. The difference now is that Americans like McClure are warming up to start-ups founded and based outside the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies’ Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/on-immigration-high-tech-and-ag-dont-meet-literally/\">On Immigration, High Tech and Ag Don’t Meet, Literally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Christen O’Brien, who does market research on the Geeks’ upcoming tour sites, says that when she started in the tech industry in 2006, “venture capital firms wouldn’t invest in start-ups in New York. That was too far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure, who just returned from India, where he took a gang of investors and technologists to visit Bahl’s company Snapdeal and newer ones, estimates “at least 25 percent of our investment strategy is probably outside the U.S. and that’s probably growing to 50 percent over the next two or three years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean McClure is done with America. Silicon Valley is his home, and he wants this round of immigration reform to make it easier for foreign tech entrepreneurs to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years McClure and fellow investors have pushed for a new brand of visas, dubbed Start-up Visas, with the premise that it will help stop the so-called “Reverse Brain Drain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The visa, now part of the immigration reform debate in Congress, would allow foreign entrepreneurs who start businesses in the U.S. to stay, so long as they generate revenue, have American investors and employ others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in fact, the crazy thing is after we tried to announce these ideas, other countries copied the idea and passed legislation before we did,” McClure said. “And we’re still sitting here with our thumbs up our asses, trying to get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OTHER COUNTRIES LURE ENTREPRENEURS\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chile got it done, thanks to a Chilean citizen educated at Stanford Business School. 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