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Los Angeles Day Labor Centers Become Theaters for Laborers

DayLaborNews — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:08:01 -08:00

Los Angeles day labor centers are turning into theaters run by day laborers turned actors all over southern California to educate migrant workers about their rights. The Day Laborer Theater Without Borders aims to blend humor with serious risk management advice primarily for immigrants just in case they ever take advantage of abusive employment opportunities working for the kind of people who pick up day laborers. One of the skits features an American in a business suit standing behind an illegal alien maid cleaning his floor before propositioning her and threatening to report her to immigration if she refuses to have sex with him. According to the actors skits like that one came from their own experiences in the workplace proving that illegal aliens hate businesses that hire them just as much as Americans do.
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Day Labor Centers Promote Hiring Illegal Aliens

DayLaborNews — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:58:16 -07:00

According to a UCLA study day laborers in Petaluma, California are overwhelmingly likely to be illegal aliens. This has led to accusations against hiring halls and day labor centers of hiring illegal aliens or promoting the hiring of illegal aliens. This was pointed out in a recent article by Jon Feere advocating for the use of E-Verify in Sonoma County to discourage the hiring of people who are in the country illegally. Another alternative to hiring illegal workers would be for American workers and employers to connect online using sites like DayLabor.org. This site may not require screening to post a job opening, business, or worker profile, but due the fact that most day laborers are not as tech savvy as most and this site being written entirely in English the user base would be primarily native born. The tool exists, now people just need to start using it.
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League City Police Department Sued by Day Laborers

DayLaborNews — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:10:55 -07:00

The League City Police Department is being sued by a group of about 40 day laborers. The laborers claim that they were wrongfully arrested while looking for work on a street corner and feel their right to free speech was violated. Residents of League City seem divided on the issue depending on whether or not the day laborers were in the country legally. They feel that anyone in the country legally should be able to look for work, but illegal aliens should not be able to. It should be interesting to see what grounds the police had for the arrests since being a day laborer by itself is not a valid indicator of immigration status.
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Alabama Immigration Law Loophole for Home Owners

DayLaborNews — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:53:56 -07:00

A new law designed to crack down on people hiring illegal immigrants has a loophole that can be exploited by "casual domestic labor". This means that illegal aliens can still work in Alabama as long as they only work for residential home owners. The reason for the loophole was to help home owners save money by not having to screen the help using Homeland Security's E-Verify system.
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Georgia State Senator Jeff Mullis Wants to Ban Day Laborers

DayLaborNews — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:41:34 -07:00

Georgia State Senator Jeff Mullis made headlines back in February when he introduced a bill intended to ban the hiring of day laborers. He introduced the bill primarily to crack down on people who hire illegal aliens because a significantly large number of day laborers in Georgia are in the country illegally. Mullis like many people realized that the main reason why day laborers come to America is because people hire them illegally and if people stop hiring them they won't show up looking for work.
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American Day Laborers Lining Up Overnight Hoping for Work

DayLaborNews — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:55:23 -07:00

A group of unemployed American day laborers made the news by lining up overnight outside of a labor center hoping to find work like Star Wars fans camping out for tickets to a prequel. These day laborers do not fit the typical day laborer stereotypes because they speak fluent English, are mostly Caucasian, and appear to be native born American citizens as opposed to the stereotypical day laborer who most people picture as being Spanish speaking, Latino, and in the country illegally. These people are all hoping to be picked up for 12 hour shifts once the day starts and can be found waiting outside the Labor Ready on Cliff Avenue and 26th Street in Sioux Falls, South Dakota every day. Each one makes an exceptionally strong effort to make money during the summer because when the weather gets worse demand for day laborers significantly decreases.
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Abdulkadir Omar Fired For Not Shaving Beard and Now Suing

DayLaborNews — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 06:30:22 -07:00

Abdulkadir Omar was fired from his job as a security guard with American Patriot Security for not shaving his beard back in 2010. He is now suing the company for emotional damages and 65 hours worth of unpaid wages. Omar says that he had the beard when they hired him and that no one ever told him that he would have to shave his beard to work there. He also says that it wasn't until he asked a supervising manager about wages he had not received that he was told to shave his beard in order to work there. Omar is a Muslim and keeps his beard neatly trimmed as part of his religious faith. He believes that his termination violated the Civil Rights Act which requires employers to accommodate the religious practices of employees unless it creates an unreasonable burden on the employer. Omar feels that American Patriot violated his Constitutional right to freedom of religion because his beard had nothing to do with his job. This story appears similar to an incident that took place in 1992 when Don Mattingly was fired from his job as a first baseman for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team because the team's owner Montgomery Burns didn't like his sideburns. The only difference in that case was that Mattingly made an effort to shave his sideburns, but didn't trim them enough to satisfy Mr. Burns.
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Job Fair at Crenshaw Christian Center Maxine Waters

DayLaborNews — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:33:44 -07:00

Congresswoman Maxine Waters will be hosting a job fair at the Crenshaw Christian Center in Los Angeles, California on August 30, 2011 and August 31, 2011. The job fair is part of an effort by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) to help unemployed people on the black community find jobs. The exact location of the fair is at: Crenshaw Christian Center West 7901 S. Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90044
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Congresswoman Frederica Wilson to Host Job Fairs in Florida

DayLaborNews — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:21:03 -07:00

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson will be hosting job fairs at the James L. Knight Center and Mount Herman AME Church in Florida on August 22, 2011 and August 23, 2011. The job fair is one of several that have been organized by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) to help out of work African Americans find jobs. The locations of the job fairs are as follows: Job Fair – James L. Knight Center, Downtown Miami 400 SE 2nd Avenue # 3, Miami, FL 33131-2116 Town Hall – Mount Herman AME Church 17800 Northwest 25th Avenue Miami Gardens, FL 33056-3656 NOTE: The CBC website (linked to above) did not specify if the job fairs are at both locations on both day or if they are at one the first day and the other the second day.
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Job Fair Hosted by Congressman John Lewis

DayLaborNews — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:56:14 -07:00

Congressman John Lewis will be hosting a job fair in Atlanta, Georgia on August 18, 2011. The job fair is one of several being put on by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) across the country. The job fair is designed to help unemployed African Americans. The exact location is as follows: 1560 Metropolitan Pkwy SW Atlanta, GA 30310
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CBC Job Fair at Wayne County Community College

DayLaborNews — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:47:27 -07:00

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will be putting on a job fair for black people in Detroit, Michigan hosted by Congressman John Conyers and Congressman Hansen Clarke. The job fair will be located on the campus of Wayne County Community College at the following address: Wayne County Community College, Downtown Campus 1001 W. Fort St., Detroit, MI, 48211
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CBC Job Fair at Cleveland State University

DayLaborNews — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:20:16 -07:00

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will be putting on a job fair for African Americans at Cleveland State University on August 8, 2011. The job fair will be hosted by Congresswoman Marcia Fudge and the exact location is as follows: Cleveland State University – Student Center 2121 Euclid Ave Cleveland, OH 44115
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