Customers streamed out of the Home Depot parking lot, click a fleet of vehicles from shiny four-wheel drive Cadillac Escalades to new Ford pickup trucks laden with cuts of lumber and stacks of drywall, appliances and gardening supplies. A small group of day laborers clustered around the exit. Jose Perez, 22, and about a dozen other men whistled, waved
The day after the storm, s Manuel Sinchi, help like some other New Yorkers, ed gathered a few friends, hopped on his bicycle and headed down to badly stricken Coney Island to volunteer his services. The next day, however, he started offering his services at his usual rate of $15 an hour. A day laborer for whom making a living in recent years has meant
The laborers meet in Gompers Park, at Pulaski and Foster each morning, s trying to get hired for construction jobs. On a recent day, activist Eric Rodriguez says Chicago Police and immigration raided the park and hauled off seven workers. One was freed and the other six are being deported. “What we’re afraid of is that it’s a new attitude that the
Day laborers and their supporters gathered Friday morning at Gompers Park on the Northwest Side to call for an end to immigration raids. They said they are not going to sit back as the raids go on. Instead, they plan to get organized. One step is to offer training classes explaining workers’ rights and what to do in case of a raid. “This is not
Day laborers and their supporters gathered Friday morning at Gompers Park on the Northwest Side to call for an end to immigration raids. They said they are not going to sit back as the raids go on. Instead, they plan to get organized. One step is to offer training classes explaining workers’ rights and what to do in case of a raid. “This is not
“We need to make sure that thee law provides a road map to citizenship, not just temporary status, for all workers, help ” said AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka in a video released Thursday on the labor federation’s official YouTube channel. “We need to fight to protect day laborers, and domestic workers, and taxi cab drivers as much as we fight to prot
The Workers’ Rug/La Alfombra Del Trabajador is an art project done by day laborers, organizers affiliated with IDEPSCA, artist Katie Bachler and Jade Thacker, and the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Bachler and Thacker wanted to use a rug as a space for social sculpture and call it the Roving Rag Rug. They acquired and programmed it into the
The Workers’ Rug/La Alfombra Del Trabajador is an art project done by day laborers, organizers affiliated with IDEPSCA, artist Katie Bachler and Jade Thacker, and the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Bachler and Thacker wanted to use a rug as a space for social sculpture and call it the Roving Rag Rug. They acquired and programmed it into the
El congresista demócrata Luis Gutiérrez dijo hoy estar “ofendido personal y políticamente” por la reciente detención de trabajadores indocumentados en una empresa cerca de Chicago, order al tiempo que activistas reclamaron una tregua navideña en las deportaciones. “Me pregunto por qué hicieron una redada después de las elecciones y no antes, y por qué en
A 51-year-old Walnut Creek contractor has pleaded not guilty to charges that he held a day laborer captive and robbed him in a Lafayette house in October. Defendant Tod Morton appeared in a Walnut Creek courthouse Friday on felony charges of false imprisonment and second-degree robbery in connection with an Oct. 15 incident that police and