Quote of the Day, July 18, 2012 In the two weeks that I spend working out of Oakland’s Labor Ready branch, my “honest pay” tops out at $8.75 an hour. I’ll clean a yard for a trucki[...]
Jul 18 2012
Quote of the Day, July 17, 2012 Labor Ready’s business customers are billed for the temp workers’ wages, plus fees that cover things like workers compensation insurance, payroll t[...]
Jul 17 2012
A couple of years back, a woman I’ll call Kate contacted me to tell me about her job managing an office providing provided blue-collar workers to enterprises in need of short-term [...]
Jul 17 2012
Tagged: exploitation, Gabriel Thompson, gary rivlin, low-wage, poverty, temp agencies, temp work, temps
Quote of the Day, July 16, 2012 Back at the Labor Ready office, I have to wait nearly 30 minutes to receive my check. The job paid $8 an hour—minimum wage. For five hours of labor,[...]
Jul 16 2012
It’s still dark when I show up at the Labor Ready storefront in downtown Oakland, California, just a few blocks from the plaza where the Occupy crowd threw up its tents again[...]
Jul 16 2012
Tagged: California, Gabriel Thompson, labor, low-income, low-wage, minimum wage, Oakland, poor, temp agencies, temp work, wage theft, Working Poor