Home Depot asked to fund labor center

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Mercury News

Home Depot asked to fund labor center
CITY EYES SPOT NEAR CHAIN'S NEW STORE
By Melanie Carroll
MediaNews
Article Launched: 06/30/2007 01:35:19 AM PDT

As the deadline looms for the Mountain View Worker Center to find a new home, the city has asked Home Depot to help pay for a relocated facility.

The non-profit center, part of the Calvary Church on California Street, helps match day workers, including gardeners, carpenters and painters, with employers who typically pay cash for a day's work.

Mountain View hopes Atlanta-based Home Depot will spend $250,000 for a permanent worker center and outreach program next to the proposed site for a new store.

Home Depot aims to tear down the old Sears site in the San Antonio Shopping Center and build a home-improvement store in its place.


Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_6268855

[youngdem]

1. So, are car companies going to be asked to build unemployment centers?

And under-performing schools asked to build prisons?

Anti-choice churches asked to build orphanages?

Frito-Lay told to build fat camps?


Home Depot didn't create this crisis. Our failed social policies did. This is a stupid idea.

[1monster]

2. So it is wrong for charities to ask BIG BUSINESS for donations to better

the lot of others?

Hmmm. I thought that was what the Republicans were always advocating; You know, PRIVATE SECTOR CHARITIES to take over what our tax dollars should be doing in order for those tax dollars to be dedicated to war.

Many big corporations brag and advertise about how much money they donate to community projects (Target brags big about the arts, Walmart donates money to various charities and 501C3 organizations for which their employees volunteer, etc.)

Plus it is a tax write off for the corporations.

And it is a good fit. People and contractors can hire casual day labor for jobs they need temporary one or two day help AND buy what they need for the job all in one stop.

I didn't see where Home Depot's participation was mandatory. Or did I miss something?

ON EDIT: Yup, here's the quote: A spokeswoman for Home Depot said it's not clear whether the company will donate any money for a worker center.

"It's too early in the game to make a decision," company spokeswoman Kathryn Gallagher said.

It is up to Home Depot to decide whether or not to donate anything. If they are PR smart, they will find a way to help. If not, well they won't.

[Solo_in_MD]

3. When the Gov asks, in many cases its not exactly voluntary charity

If Home Depot were to decline, would their permits still be issued? ANYTIME the Government or pols ask for *donations*, one has to be suspicious.

[Codeine]

4. Or people could just hire real working men and women

and pay them a legal wage instead of using illegal alien day labor and undermining our whole economy to save a few dollars. But anything to make the wealthy just a little wealthier and ensure the poor stay permanently poor.

[Miss Chybil]

5. As opposed to the fake working men and women?

and what if you need a little help and you're not wealthy enough to pay for "real" people?

[Codeine]

6. Clearly not the best choice of words on my part.

I meant legal workers who insist on being paid a fair and equitable wage.

And if you can't afford a job without exploiting people for sub-minimum wages then you should probably do the work yourself, or ask yourself if the job needs to be done at all.

[Fierce]

7. Well said.

nt.

[Malidictus Maximus]

8. Well Said!

Bravo:thumbsup: :thumbsup: