Number of day laborers in San Joaquin County surges as housing work dries up
Tagged: California, day laborers, foreclosure
The housing boom made construction one of San Joaquin County’s fastest-growing industries from 2002 to 2005, according to a 2006 California Employment Development Department report.
It’s a different story now. The residential building halt and mounting foreclosure crisis, the latter of which has displaced many San Joaquin County families, also have left a shortage of work for Martin and other laborers who once built and landscaped those homes.
A number of those workers – mainly the undocumented portion – head every day to Stockton’s Gateway Plaza to solicit jobs. The workers historically gathered on the block at the bottom of the El Dorado Street exit from the Crosstown Freeway to solicit daily jobs.”*
*From: www.recordnet.com
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