Blacks, Latinos Dominate Silicon Valley’s ‘Invisible Workforce’

*Who said there were no Latinos in Silicon Valley? VL

By Jeff Elder, Wall Street Journal

Blacks and Latinos make up a sizable share of low-wage workers cleaning and guarding Silicon Valley tech companies, where the technical workforces are overwhelmingly white and Asian, according to a report scheduled to be released Tuesday.

The report, from the labor-affiliated Working Partnerships USA, comes after months of disclosures by tech companies about the ethnic and racial composition of workforces at Google Inc., Apple Inc. and other large tech companies.

The report notes that most of the janitors, landscapers and security guards on corporate campuses are employed by contractors, and not by the tech firms themselves.

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