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They were not what you’d call the usual day laborer gigs. No yard work. No installing doors. No laying down roof tiles on a hot summer day. There was the person who paid several workers to stand in ...

Alexander, a 19-year-old day laborer, stands at his usual spot in the Mission District in the early morning, keeping an eye out for employers who drive by. Photo by Mariana Garcia. When a truck pulls ...

After the January Eaton Fire, day laborers from the Pasadena Community Job Center joined other workers to organize cleaning brigades that cleared roads and sidewalks of fire debris and fallen tree ...

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For Americans who work salaried jobs, part-time work tends to be seen as a choice, even a luxury, something those who can ...

Will skilled union workers starve to protect the wage scales which Labor has struggled 50 years to build? That question was put to a test in New York City last week when some 2,000 union bricklayers, ...

LOS ANGELES -- The nation's largest federation of unions agreed Wednesday to work with a network of immigrant day laborers to improve wages and working conditions for those who solicit work from ...

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (KSL) — Without legal authority to work in the United States, Luis’ options are limited. “I’ve looked for work, and usually they don’t hire you unless you have a work permit,” ...

Editor's Note: This story is a collaboration between The Charlotte Optimist and WFAE. He arrives around 8:30 a.m., 65 years old, eight months sober and wearing a T-shirt that reads, “NOPE: Not going ...