Archived Winnipeg program that pays homeless $11/hr to clean streets full every day (cbc.ca)
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Archived Winnipeg program that pays homeless $11/hr to clean streets full every day (cbc.ca)
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[–] RedditDead2005-2015 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
They would never be able to this in in the U.S. because city unions would never allow it. I remember the city unions fighting the city for using prisoners to paint highways because it took jobs away from their unionized workforce.
[–] rwbj 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago (edited ago)
If you don't see the difference - prisoners in the US are treated basically like slave labor. Those workers were likely getting somewhere between 10c and a dollar per hour. Using prison labor is basically a way for companies, and the government, to skirt labor laws. So long as the real unemployment rate is > 0 using prison labor for jobs that free people could be working is just so backwards. Those are jobs that free citizens could be doing for a proper pay check to put food on the table and a roof over their heads.
[–] WickedVocalist ago (edited ago)
Even McDonalds in California was forced to use people on parole or probation for community service programs - this was all mandated when after the recession, no one had money at all to eat out and some franchises signed up to be paid through the SNAP hot meal program, so people lacking a kitchen or the homeless on SNAP could eat at McDonalds. Because it was community service, they didn't get paid a penny - I know this because one of my roomies in LBC was a manager there and they did it all the time.
All the nonprofit halfway houses and residential missions through section 8 absolutely loved it - the 'charity' owners were rolling up in a brand new Lexus or Mercedes, and investing their profits in non profit music labels and crap for the homeless to achieve their 'dreams and goals'. Such a scam.
Yet the residential centers had waiting lists 8 years long and only took a certain number of people, all of whom had been between there to jail and back for decades in some cases.. Revolving door.
Then a couple of the men who owned these shelters were found out to be operating a strip club on the side and guess who they found working there and living in squalor? They got shut down and people were angry because they were such philanthropists. All of this was endorsed by scum like OC Weekly and liar Ginsburg, who makes 100k a year.
Some of the 'residents' would try to get jobs, but the owners would never shut up about how mentally ill and unemployable they were so they weren't hired until the dudes got locked up - miraculously some got jobs after their haters and exploiting parties were out of the way.
[–] Amateur_Wizard ago
Then they should do their fucking job, no?
The idea to have prisoners or homeless cleaning the streets wouldn't exist if the streets were clean in the first place.
[–] RedditDead2005-2015 ago
Then the unionw will say they're understaffed and underpaid. Cha-ching! Picketing for higher wages!