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
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Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 2:48 PM
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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 moreSome but far from most. Most wind up doing stoop labor in the fields,
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.
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
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