11 Day Laborers Union

11 Day Laborers Union
On a corner of St. Andrews place, Mario Martinez and Pablo Alvarado, organizers for the Day Laborers Union, a project of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, argue with a group of day laborers, trying to convince them that it's better to get their jobs at the site organized a few blocks away, instead of here on the corner. The workers don't want to move to the new site, and accuse Martinez and Alvarado of trying to take their jobs.

photographs and stories by David Bacon © 1990-1999

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