City of Vista to stop enforcement of Vista's Day Labor law....

Vista, CA: City no longer actively enforcing Day Labor law.

Jose Ramirez sits with other day laborers looking for work near South Santa Fe Avenue and Civic Center Drive in Vista on Nov. 15. (Photo by Hayne Palmour IV - Staff Photographer, North County Times)

A law enacted in Vista four years ago to regulate the street-side hiring of day laborers is no longer being enforced, city officials say. Several factors led to the lapse, they say, including a significant drop in the number of would-be workers who congregate near a busy intersection in the city to wait for work.
The ordinance, unanimously passed by the City Council in 2006, requires employers who hire day laborers to first register at City Hall, display a certificate in their car windows and present workers with written terms of employment. Failure to comply is punishable by a $100 fine.

Catch the full article by clicking here.

MONUMENT CORRIDOR BOYCOTT list for Saturday....

Please BOYCOTT these Monument Corridor Businesses that allow Day Laborers to solicit day jobs upon or near their property:

1. U-Haul Equipment Rentals on Monument.
2. America's Tire on Monument.
3. California Public Auction.
4. World Gas on Monument.
5. Super Liquor & Food at Reganti.
6. Hankook Market.
7. El Rancho Restaurant.
8. Home Depot by the DMV.

This is a snapshot taken on this day. The other businesses in The Corridor are cooperating today by enforcing the spirit and intent of the City-of-Concord's No-Solicitation Municipal-Code 106-561 Please click on the 'taking action' links to sound-off to the businesses that tolerate this blight on our neighborhood and on our town.

MONUMENT CORRIDOR BOYCOTT list for Tuesday....

Please BOYCOTT these Monument Corridor Businesses that allow Day Laborers to solicit day jobs upon or near their property:

1. Vista Del Monte Trailer Park on Monument.
2. U-Haul Equipment Rentals on Monument.
3. America's Tire on Monument.
4. World Gas on Monument.
5. McDonalds on Monument.
6. Mercado Del Valle on Monument.
7. Senor Burbujas Laundromat on Monument.
8. Donut Time on Monument.
9. Concord Launderland on Reganti at Monument.
10. Home Depot by the DMV.

This is a snapshot taken on this day. The other businesses in The Corridor are cooperating today by enforcing the spirit and intent of the City-of-Concord's No-Solicitation Municipal-Code 106-561 Please click on the 'taking action' links to sound-off to the businesses that tolerate this blight on our neighborhood and on our town.

MONUMENT CORRIDOR BOYCOTT list for Sunday....

Please BOYCOTT these Monument Corridor Businesses that allow Day Laborers to solicit day jobs upon or near their property:

RAINY DAY: NO LOITERING DAY LABORERS SOLICITING EMPLOYMENT TODAY AT THIS TIME!

This is a snapshot taken on this day. The other businesses in The Corridor are cooperating today by enforcing the spirit and intent of the City-of-Concord's No-Solicitation Municipal-Code 106-561 Please click on the 'taking action' links to sound-off to the businesses that tolerate this blight on our neighborhood and on our town.

Undocumented Day Laborers have the right to be paid....

"You work hard and you have the right to be paid. I am U.S. Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis. And, it is a serious problem in this country when workers are not being paid every cent they earn. Remember, every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly, whether documented, or not. So, call us, it is free and confidential: (866) 487-9243 or visit: http://www.dol.gov/wecanhelp

Immigrants gain jobs, lose earnings....

by Rakesh Kochhar, Associate Director for Research, Pew Hispanic Center, with C. Soledad Espinoza, Intern, Pew Hispanic Center, and Rebeca Hinze-Pifer, Intern, Pew Hispanic Center

In the year following the official end of the Great Recession in June 2009, foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while native-born workers lost 1.2 million, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Labor data by the Pew Hispanic Center.

Also, even as immigrants managed to gain jobs in the recovery, they experienced a sharp decline in earnings.  From 2009 to 2010, the median weekly earnings of foreign-born workers decreased 4.5%, compared with a loss of less than one percent for native-born workers. Latino immigrants experienced the largest drop in wages of all.

Read the full article here.