Tech companies absent from roundtable chat on contracted workers’ rights

Silicon Valley technology companies were absent from a roundtable meeting with contracted employees discussing equity, fair pay and workers’ rights in Santa Clara last week.

U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Santa Clara, hosted the roundtable July 2 to amplify a burgeoning discussion on workers’ rights in the technology industry’s low-wage service sector, which includes shuttle bus drivers, janitors and cafeteria workers.