| IDEPSCA first began organizing day laborers in the city of Pasadena in 1994. Literacy classes in Pasadena introduced the opportunity for IDEPSCA to get to know day laborers given our methodology. Through the popular education methodology, day laborers who participated in literacy classes began sharing their stories and all the struggles they endured when it came to looking for work on the streets. The more we learned about their situation, the clearer it became that IDEPSCA had to begin fighting for day laborers’ rights. Three years later, in 1997, the city contracted IDEPSCA to operate day laborer centers in the greater Los Angeles area. IDEPSCA’s Day Laborer Program began in 1997 with the opening of the Hollywood Community Job Center. Today, IDEPSCA manages six day laborer centers and organizes three corners. Throughout this time IDEPSCA successfully raised the visibility and minimum standards of the day labor sector. The day laborer centers constitute a safer, more humane alternative for day laborers to look for employment. Each job center has different dynamics, but workers’ rights remain a standard at all facilities. Minimum wage (higher than the current state and federal minimum) and safe working conditions are demanded at every center thus reducing the rate of exploitation dramatically. |
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