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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

Whenever I would pass a Home Depot in Phx I would see a dozen or more men, 
trying to get the attention of anyone who passed trying to get them to hire 
for any kind of work.  Even if they got ten per hour they didn't average 
minimum wage by the time they waited one or more days to get hired.  The same 
thing driving into the landfill, they were offering to empty your trailer for 
whatever they could get.
Van Dell

--- On Sun, 9/13/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Irony
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 1:48 PM
> 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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