Posted on 11/06/2004 6:28:46 PM PST by SmithL
Enrique Najera sometimes makes $150 for a full day's work. Those days come rarely.
Najera is a day laborer whose workday usually lasts no longer than three or four hours. On slow weeks, he gets only two jobs and makes less than $100. Najera, who says he sends money to Mexico to help support his four children, sleeps at homeless shelters or friends' rooms because he can't stretch his wages far enough to cover rent.
On Friday, the San Francisco Day Labor Program took a step toward helping Najera and other day laborers by increasing the minimum wage for its workers. The laborers will now charge $50 for the first three hours of work and an additional $15 per hour thereafter. The old flat rate was $12 an hour.
"We don't get work every day," the Spanish-speaking Najera said through an interpreter. "Whatever extra we make is good."
A group of immigrant workers, with the help of community leaders, founded the program 13 years ago. The idea was to create an orderly way of getting temporary jobs from a central location.
The program, which has been run by the nonprofit La Raza Centro Legal . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
La Raza - American traitors helping Mexico invade one truckload of illegal aliens at a time.
Can I sign up for this?
$15/hour for unskilled labor? Have these people ever seen a 'Supply and Demand' graph?
Hahahahahaha! The liberal-socialists of San Francisco allowed all that neo-slave labor in only to put a bullet through their collective foot seeking to assuage a late-breaking crisis of conscience. I believe the American Psychiatric Association is headquartered there (where the harvest is bountiful).
By Saturday, no one was hired at the SF Day Labor Program. All illegals will be hired somewhere else at lower wages.
Heh. $100-$150 for 4 hrs work is nothing to sniff at.
Saps. Have they ever heard the word "illegal"? American law is being stomped on by our leaders.
Umm...San Francisco also hands out $300/month checks to anyone who lines up at city hall and claims "homelessness" in the city. Last year's budget for the "homeless" was something like $100 million.
San Francisco is utterly mad. Even attempting rational comments goes nowhere with them. The current mayor, Gavin Newsome, was actually elected as the conservative candidate, as he ran on a platform of cleaning up the homeless/day labor/thug problem in the city.
And of course, what did he do instead?
Marriage licenses for Steve and Bruce.
BTW, this week he's walking the picket lines with hotel workers demanding higher wages. Workers whose wages have had downward pressure from...right. The illegals coming in to take the jobs. The illegals he wants to subsidize now...
Perfectly rational, right?
Yep --- an over-abundance of cheap labor will keep their wages down -- even many illegals realize this -- and ironically not pro-open-borders like the employers of illegals are.
The problem also with the $15 an hour job that might be 4 hours a day, 2 or 3 days a week ---- the cost of living is so very high in San Francisco --- that kind of wage doesn't begin to cover the costs of the health care, education, housing costs etc of their large families.
In his low wage region an illegal can get somewhere between $15 to $30 an hour for loading bales of hay --- but that's pretty hard physical work and they can't do it 8 hours straight. You see these old guys out there in 100 plus temperatures --- after an hour they're collapsing.
In this area many of the seasonal workers can only earn $5000 to $7000 a year which is why you often find 3 large families living in some old single wide trailer. The wage-earner might find enough work for beer, cigarettes and lottery tickets but the woman and her children bring in the most by collecting food stamps, housing subdidies, WIC and all the rest.
Good to know illegals make more than I did when I lived in San Diego paying my 1200 a month rent for a one bedroom.
Come to think of it, I don't have health insurance now, maybe I should fly down to Mexico, get a tan and sneak back in to the US and pretend I am Mexican, then I can get free health care, in state tuition etc etc etc.
BARF.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.