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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Irony
  • Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:04:14 -0400

Here, the kind of work you guys are talking about, shoveling manure from horse stalls and dairy ops, landscaping, haybaling etc pays $8/hour to cash workers and day laborers. The only minimum wage type jobs are in retail and fast food. Grocery stores start at $8, too.

People have been migrating south for quite a number of years. Not only do we have multiple seasons, but we have jobs, too.

B

Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
No wonder they DON'T come to Tioga Co. PA!! I've been looking for 3 years and can't find even a minimum wage job. I've applied for everything I've found, and there are dozens of other applicants. I'll do anything except work on a dairy farm (way too much work for minimum wage, and a split shift, like 6-10am then 4-8pm)

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Irony


Wow, no wonder they are coming to GA. Here, they make $10 starting pay
through temp agencies with benefits. If they get on in a mill directly,
they make a minimum of $12/hour, and more with shift work and overtime.
A lot of the mills get illegals to work nights and weekends because
they will, so they end up with 50-60 hour weeks and lots of overtime.
Two of my former coworkers and friends made over 70K.



Don Bowen wrote:
Those coming to CA don't "grub for dirty work." They make lots more
than
$7/hr. Their fake IDs get them construction and landscaping jobs that
begin, at minimum, $10 and go upwards to $30 plus an hour.
Some but far from most. Most wind up doing stoop labor in the fields,
picking your organic greens, often paid by the amount picked, rarely above
the minimum wage. Gardeners (the mow, blow, and go type) make upwards of
$10 an hour but many of the larger companies have the people on contract and
pay by the job. Until recently many were in the construction trades. Ten
years ago a framer with tools made around $25 an hour, at the height of the
boom two years ago a framer with tools made around $20. Most crews were
heavily illegals and paid in cash. The guys hanging around looking for day
labor are lucky to get $8, good pay is $10 an hour with a meal.

Don Bowen KI6DIU
New ruralize pages, follow the link off http://www.ruralize.com
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html


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