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Day laborers (unskilled illegal immigrant labor) are unionizing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/us/14laborers.html?_r=1&oref=login

For a minute, the woman in the car and the men haggled feverishly before the Lexus drove off — without any day laborers to help with her gardening. The woman had offered to pay $10 an hour, not realizing what she had stumbled into: the only day labor site in the nation that has set a $15-an-hour minimum wage.

Date: 2006-07-19 04:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nrawling.livejournal.com
Unfortunately, I fear you are very much the wrong color to collect the $15/hour benefit.

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