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Day laborers wait by a Valero gas station along Esperanza Road, hoping to get hired for a job on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, in Dallas.On any given day, in places like Vickery Meadow or Bachman Lake in Dallas, you will see dozens of day laborers desperately seeking to work. This manpower is usually hired for landscaping, painting or construction.
These workers and the contractors who hire them create informal networks that have been part of the Dallas economy for decades. However, day laborers are prone to wage theft and other forms of abuse. And employers don’t always find the skills they are looking for while neighborhoods often complain of loitering.to help day laborers is filling an important void.
Workforce Solutions is acting more in an advising role and will be sharing learned lessons from experience with a labor center in Garland that closed in 2020. Dallas is also mirroring some of the success of the Day Labor Center in Plano.These centers make sure there is trust between employers and workers. Those who do not get paid are directed to the Texas Workforce Commission to file a complaint, but most contractors who go through day labor centers want to follow the rules.
While it is a welcome sign that the city is looking for ways to protect day laborers to gather in safe environments and to make sure they are hired by contractors that actually pay them, they are also a symptom of our larger immigration problem. In each of the three places the city selected, there can be up to 75 day laborers a day, and many are recent arrivals. These are some of the hundreds of thousands of people who arrive in the country each day.
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