Day Laborer Hiring Sites Constructive Approach Esto Community Conflict

By Toma, Robin S.

Book Id: WPLBN0000697752
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Day Laborer Hiring Sites Constructive Approach Esto Community Conflict
Author:	Toma, Robin S.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Law., Law & economy, Litigation and arbitration
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Publisher:	Department of Justice


Citation APA MLA Chicago S. Tom, B. R. (n.d.). Day Laborer Hiring Sites Constructive Approach Esto Community Conflict. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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Legal Reference Publication

Excerpt
Excerpt: This manual strives to fill a gap in policymakers? knowledge regarding the best ways to approach complaints concerning day laborer hiring sites. This gap became undeniably apparent to us after responding to requests for assistance in different neighborhoods in Los Angeles, and communities beyond, both urban and suburban. In meeting after meeting with irritated business owners, angry homeowners, and frustrated police officials, we would discuss the all-too-familiar problems regarding day laborer hiring sites. We saw the shortcomings of certain panaceas, such as the passage of laws to criminalize day laborers? efforts to get hired. Politically expedient responses, based on flawed assumptions and without the benefit of knowing what had succeeded and failed in other places, seemed to characterize many of the initial responses of local authorities. Not only did such responses fail to resolve the complaints, they often exacerbated inter-group conflict and contributed to the deterioration of human relations in those communities.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i GLOSSARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii chapter one: THE BASICS 1/ Who Are Day Laborers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2/ Community Controversy and Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3/ CHART: Straightforward Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6 4/ CHART: Advantages & Disadvantages: Types of Projects . . . . . . . . . 7 chapter two: NUTS AND BOLTS ~ PRACTICAL STRATEGIES 1/ BUILDING ALLIANCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2/ CONFLICT RESOLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3/ SITE ACQUISITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4/ ORGANIZING CHALLENGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5/ ATTRACTING DAY LABORERS TO THE PROJECT . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 6/ RAISING EMPLOYMENT LEVELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 7/ JOB DISTRIBUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 8/ SUSTAINABILITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 9/ ORDINANCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 chapter three: CREATIVE SOLUTIONS ~ CASE STUDIES 1/ WOODLAND HILLS, CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Resolving day laborer controversy using the basics 2/ DENTON, TEXAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 How a community came together to resolve their day laborer controversy without government intervention 3/ SEATTLE, WASHINGTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 CASA Latina?s Day Laborer Project in Belltown 4/ GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 An innovative collaboration between day laborers and local government helps build strong resource for the city 5/ SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Collaboration between social service organization and government officials results in successful hiring center