Workers ruin neighborhood?
Thursday, 31 January 2008 Jacob TomawMy condo board president emailed us recently to inform us about an upcoming community meeting about Labor Ready moving to our area.
Labor Ready is a placement agency for day labor. This sounds great to me. I don’t have numbers, but it looks like there are lots of underemployed folks around here. Perhaps, that is why this company wants to move here.
Why are people in the community opposed to this? The reported reasons are because there will be people lining up to get work; and once they have work, there will be vans loading on the street to take them to work. (This sounds a lot like something else to me. People standing in line waiting on transport to work. Hmm, where else do I see that? I will have to think about it at the Metra station tomorrow.)
These people are willing to stand in line for what I suspect is hard work, if not ‘work Americans won’t do.’ This is what I want Jonah to see and learn about, not the crazeos we usually have down on the corner.