For my SF Bay Area folks...

Just a reminder that Hyphen is sponsoring South Bay First Thursdays' event today on how the South Bay labor movement is helping working families in the service sector fight for economic justice: how you and your job in Corporate Cubicle Company can affect the implementation of progressive labor policies.

We've all experienced the severe pressures of work: the looming, high-pressure deadlines, the lack of respect for work by our managers, being expected to work late or through the weekend just to "get the job done," the bitter taste of getting paid too little for what it takes to survive in the Valley. Unless you're a highly educated, highly skilled, upper income worker, there is little upside to being a rat in the rat race. Yet what's it like being a rat in the race when you do mostly invisible and unrespected work? Or when labor is back-breaking instead of paper pushing?