laundry

[rm]

Lately, it's become easiest for me to do my laundry on weekday mornings. At my laundromat this often means that it's hard to get a washer because this is when the laundry that people send in to be done is done.

What I only realized today, however, is that this is not laundry from the neighborhood. What happens is that people drop off their laundry to be done at pricer laundromats on the UES and then these laundromats then farm the work out to my laundromat at cheaper rates and it gets done by hand at god knows what awful wages before it's carted back downtown.

Today I had to shove aside a bag bound for Gracie Mansion.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my only hestitation is the degree to which something like this coming to light doesn't get these peopel better wages, it gets the work shifted elsewhere and leaves they folks more broke. Also I wonder to what degree they are illegals.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

*nods* that is definitely a problem. We recently had a local paper do an expose on truly horrid working conditions at a canning plant and all it generated was a raid by the department of immigration.