A measure to allow San Jose Police Department personnel to jump to the front of the line in...
Op-ed: San Jose must act as “Slavery Towers” workers wait for protection
Nearly a decade has passed since the case now known as “Slavery Towers” exposed the human cost of San Jose’s failure to enforce basic worker protections. In 2016, city officials were alerted that construction workers on a high-rise project were being denied pay. A year later, the U.S. Department of Labor confirmed more than a dozen workers had been trafficked and forced to work under abusive conditions by an unlicensed contractor. They were housed in a compound outside the city and transported daily to downtown San Jose to build residential towers that remain largely unoccupied and have done little to...
