Latina Equal Pay Day calls attention to compensation inequity among the fastest-growing segment in the American work force.
SANTA CLARA -- Maria Castellon is the president and CEO of Bench-Tek, a multi-million-dollar Santa Clara factory that makes benches, racks and workstations for tech, bio-med and car companies in Silicon Valley and around the world."No matter how I was dressed, they automatically thought I was looking for a job," Castellon says.
"It could be racism, misogyny, patriarchy, capitalism -- there's a lot of 'isms,'" said Gabby Chavez-Lopez, the Latina Coalition's executive director. Castellon said she first felt the sting of injustice when she worked as a janitor for a tech company and was skipped over for raises.She went back to school, learned the tech furniture business while working in someone else's factory and saved her money.
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