MORGAN HILL
– Councilwoman Hedy Chang announced at Wednesday’s City Council
meeting another step forward in opening a center for the casual
laborers, known locally as dayworkers, who congregate on East Main
and Depot avenues, looking for work.
MORGAN HILL – Councilwoman Hedy Chang announced at Wednesday’s City Council meeting another step forward in opening a center for the casual laborers, known locally as dayworkers, who congregate on East Main and Depot avenues, looking for work.
The St. Catherine’s Dayworker Committee has worked for two years to find a site for such a center. Chang said a lease was signed Tuesday between the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose, representing St. Catherine’s Roman Catholic Church, and Charles Weston of Weston Miles Architects.
Weston and Lesley Miles are buying the Isaacson Grain Co. building on Depot Avenue near East Main Avenue, intending to rehabilitate the structure into offices and, possibly a café or bakery. Weston had offered the vacant land between the building and East Main Avenue as a site to locate portable buildings for a dayworker center.
The center’s function is to ease problems that arise between worker and employer from the language barrier. It will hold English as a Second Language classes and help the workers toward citizenship. It also helps the works get in from the weather.
