IN AGOURA HILLS, Calif., day laborers have already started to ask for more get ready people that argument that prices will go up if we make them leave . hello if they are legal or guest workers they will want more and nothing has passed yet and they are already asking for more so there goes that argument out the window .
The black Lexus stopped just yards from a large, shady oak tree, and eight copper-skinned Guatemalan men rushed over.
For a minute, the woman in the car and the men haggled feverishly before the Lexus drove off — without any day laborers to help with her gardening.
The woman had offered to pay $10 an hour, not realizing what she had stumbled into: the only day labor site in the nation that has set a $15-an-hour minimum wage
At a few dozen other sites across the country, day laborers have set minimums, usually $8 or $10. Around 10:30 a.m., Marie Caupisch drove up in a Mercedes-Benz 300D Turbo Diesel, offering to hire one or two men for $10 an hour —
2006-07-14
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