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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 ...

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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 ...

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You know the type: The coworker who's always bragging about all the work they have to do, yet seems to spend the majority of their day socializing with coworkers or doing seemingly nothing at all.

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 ...

Loud labor employees spend more time talking about their work than actually doing it. According to the Monster poll, the solution to how to deal with a loud laborer isn’t clear among workers. Only 23% ...

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, ...

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," he said. As such, the Peruvian ...

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 ...