A Latino Worker, a Risky Construction Site and a Family in Mourning. Construction workers, many of them undocumented, continue to die on the job in New York City, despite safety regulations.

New York Times ^ | February 17, 2020 | Andrea Salcedo and Derek M. Norman

[Clemenza]

Skilled jobs remain high paid, union or not. For unskilled/semiskilled, not so much anymore, albeit still better pay than in Texas. A large number of private sector projects are no longer unionized.

[scrabblehack]

Hispanic or Latino?

Does Latino include Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian?

[raybbr]

“””” Mr. Huerta’s wife, Maria Guazhco...”

Yeah, sure. Different names but married.

[kearnyirish2]

They are probably hired by subcontractors; many projects also require 51% minority workers (including preferred racial minorities and female workers).

As much as I like Mike Rowe’s “Dirty Jobs”, the fact is that many of those jobs are filled with unskilled illegals - at least in my area (in NJ, a dozen miles west of Manhattan). Friends in the trades have lost their jobs to them, and employers have no interest in hiring Americans if they can avoid it.

At a local outdoor flea market, you can see the illegals buying tools from the idled American workers; it is a shame...