Silvery Towers labor woes draw accusations of human trafficking and slave labor
SAN JOSE — Hundreds of protesters rallied in front of the soaring Silvery Towers high-rises in downtown San Jose on Thursday, accusing the project’s principal developer, Full Power Properties, of slave labor, human trafficking and wage theft.
About 400 construction workers, including dozens who displayed signs referring to the development as “Slavery Towers,” demanded that Santa Clara County supervisors approve measures to curb what they described as wage theft affecting numerous South Bay workers.
“For two years, we have been loudly expressing our concerns about wage theft at Silvery Towers,” said David Bini, executive director of the Building and Construction Trades Council in Santa Clara County and San Benito County. “We know that workers were exploited, and are being exploited, at Silvery Towers.”
China-based Full Power Properties, which has its local offices in Foster City, dismissed the union rally as a “publicity stunt.”
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Will Smith (center, gesturing), Business Agent of IBEW Local 332, speaks during a union workers' protest in front of the Silvery Towers construction site in San Jose. Hundreds of protesters rallied in front of the soaring Silvery Towers high-rises in downtown San Jose on Thursday, accusing the project's principal developer, Full Power Properties, of "slave labor," "human trafficking" and "wage theft."
