Why do you advocate letting the day laborers make all the rules, decisions, and program policy? Aren’t they the problem in the first place?
That is the precise reason why allowing day laborers to make all the rules, decisions, and program policies makes sense: this puts the solution entirely in the hands of the day laborers—the day laborers themselves define the problem, decide on a solution, and decide how to implement and fund the solution We have found that day laborers are able to construct a worker-designed day labor program that will satisfy the day laborers, local businesses, employers, community, local government and police as long as they have the right tools. Why should day laborers make program policy? Day laborers are, after all, the ones most affected by bad or good program decisions. Bad decisions leave them without work and feeling impotent to influence the program.
