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Location 
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Description
$ 18
Apr 2008
Bellingham, WA
Day Labor Construction
Used an employment service to locate a few temporary laborers  more... close row
$ 680
May 2008
Ashland, KY
manual labor
Temporary employees for manual labor in setting up store  more... close row
$ 80
Mar 2007
San Diego, CA
Yard work.
Six hours of yard clean up by temp worker  more... close row
$ 7
Feb 2007
Tampa, FL
strawberry picking
Fruit pickers earn minimum wage  more... close row

Description of service

Strawberry picking.

Our area is full of strawberry patches; many day laborers gather at a couple of street corners in Tampa. They get minimum wage ($6.79) and are transported from the street corner to the field and returned to the street corner.


Review of Service

My friend has enlarged what was her strawberry patch into a strawberry field business. These laborers are hard workers and they don't complain. The sun is hot and the work is hard. They are happy to have the work. They start work at about 7 a.m. as soon as it is light and work until noon when they would break for lunch. My friend used to bring them lunch, but she found they preferred to bring their own. They only took about thirty minutes for lunch (unpaid) even though she said they could have an hour. They wanted that extra 30 minutes of work. They worked until the sun went down. They were paid in cash at the end of the day and were driven back to Tampa.

She worried about where they went after she dropped them off.


Tips

Most big cities have such set-ups.

If you need to know where the corners are, call the police dept (not 9-1-1) they usually know where they are.


$ 90
Mar 2008
Pickerington, Ohio
Temporary worker helped with spring cleaning in yard  more... close row
$ 240
Apr 2007
San Diego, CA
Gardening
Two experienced employees for six hours each  more... close row
$ 12
Mar 2008
Savannah,Georgia
Temporary workers for industrial painting project  more... close row
$ 80
May 2006
New Edinburg, AR
livestock operations
Price per week for temporary employees from agency  more... close row
$ 0
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$ 80
Mar 2007
San Diego, CA
Maintenance
Worker to clean and prep a room for painting  more... close row
$ 235
Mar 2008
Austin, Texas
General Labor
Temp employees for gardening labor  more... close row