Silicon Valley is home to some of the most profitable corporations on earth.

It's also home to clients who employ U.S. Security Associates, a security firm with $1.2 billion in annual revenues.

Yesterday a dozen Silicon Valley security officers and SEIU members standing with them in solidarity visited U.S. Security Associates headquarters in Belmont, Calif. to call on U.S. Security Associates--the nation's fourth-largest security firm--to honor their employees' freedom to form a union, without management interference.

"Having a union will be the only way for us to have quality healthcare, including dental and vision coverage. Today's delegation is a big step for us to achieve it," said security officer Richard Martin.

Silicon Valley profits are created, of course, by workers--including the security officers who protect people and property at facilities owned by the region's high-tech giants.

But security officers don't get to keep those profits. Instead they're going to the richest one percent--often leaving officers with too little to buy food and medicine.

Security officers in Silicon Valley made their case loud and clear--poverty has no place in California's booming Silicon Valley and no place in the security industry.