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:: Thursday, January 26, 2006 ::
Risky business: Day workers suffer injustice, injuries - By JOHN IWASAKI, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
'They may hire you as a painter. They may want you to tear down Sheetrock. They don't want to pay you extra. It's crazy. But it's the only way to get work.'
A nationwide study of day laborers found similar tales of workers who were shortchanged by employers and who felt they had little recourse. The study also reported that laborers commonly have irregular incomes, suffer job-related injuries and work more for individual homeowners than for contractors.------------------------------------------- posted 6:30 AM :: reference link ::
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