Since the late 1950s, when perhaps six unions were active in the Valley, the trade associations and individual firms have made it one of their primary missions to destroy all vestiges of worker autonomy, the most visible manifestation of which is the union.
2002, David Naguib Pellow, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, “Toward Environmental and Social Justice in Silicon Valley, USA, and Beyond”, in The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy, New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, page 212