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| united labor group disaster clean up logansport, Indiana |
| 11th of Jun, 2011 by User645072 |
| I was offered a job by United Labor Group. The pay would be $13 per hour. You'd work 7 days a week , 10 hour days, cleaning up a town called slave lake in Alberta, Canada, which had been devastated by a wildfire. You'd also get overtime after 40 hours. They set a meet time where you were suppose to show up in sweetgrass, Montana on a certain date and then cross into Canada in company vans. They pushed back the meet date several times. I thought it was odd that they never contacted me to let me know this. I was only finding out by happenstance because I was calling them with questions every day, like can I bring a laptop, can my friend also come work, etc.. I paid over $200 to get a birth certificate and then an expedited passport for this job as both I and this company are located in the United States. I turned down what for me were incredible legitimate job opportunites because I wanted to do this. After being strung along for over two weeks with assurances that this job was actually going to happen, and that they were just jumping through legal hoops, they finally told that it wasn't going to happen. Wow. The real problem for me is that I held off on taking other jobs so as not to suddenly quit to leave for this one. I'm not some guy just sitting around collecting welfare or something. I could have taken another job. I'm pretty sure I'll have another job soon but it will not be the job that I turned down for this, which sucks. I should have been suspicious about their professionalism when instead of having me fill out an application or getting any personal information, they simply sent me an email telling me when and where to meet, and very little about the actual work. Wow. Just be careful of trusting them too much. They might have other legitimate gigs. It's possible they were just inexperienced and didn't realize the issues of getting Canada to accept foreign workers, when Canada has plenty of their own workers. Regardless, they assured me several times that this job would happen and it did not. I wish I had taken the other job. |
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I am so glad I found this letter and read it. Just about the same experience happened to my son. He actually drove within 2 hours of Sweetgrass, MT. He stayed the night at a hotel and was getting ready to finish the drive to Sweetgrass, when he received a phone cal telling him not to come yet; that it would be another week to week and a half before they would be ready. So my son turned around and drove all the way back to Idaho.
Since then he has sent several e-mails and left several messages on a cell phone number he had and has not heard a single word. Now I know why.
He also gave up a job in Idaho to take the job in Slave Lake, Alberta because the pay was better.
He also spent quite a bit of money on needed clothes for the work.
There should be a way to get back at whoever did this. |
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| That is unfortunate. I have worked several gigs for them and they are a great group. If they went to the trouble of putting it together then they had a contract and their client must of screwed them over. In my 20 yrs of traveling construction work I have traveled to lots of jobs that got delayed, put on hold or cancelled. Thats the nature of the beast, welcome to the construction world. If you didn't provide any information to them sounds to me like you didn't actually have a job to begin with. My suggestion is to quit crying and move on. Road Dog Out. |
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I actually drove 650 miles for this job and ended up expensively waiting in montana for a week at the recruiter's advice.
They did send me money to get home and have otherwise been true to their word so far. I was promised reimbursement anyway, whether they get the job back up or not, so we'll see.
If they get the job going again, I'm still game. |
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| I have been out of work for quite a while and responded to a Craiglist Ad for construction workers to work in Manville, New Jersey as the town was flooded the week befor.A lot of business and residents were flooded out.I called the number in the Craigslist Ad and spoke to Adam to meet with him @ 7am the next morning a Thursday.Anway we started to work being told we would be paid $10.00 per hour, being desperate several guys including myself took the the job.We started cleaning, demolition of the cluster of commercial shops and a few apartments that were on the first floor that had 6ft of water.At the end of the day we completed the paper work including a voided check so we could get paid electronically.The fist week I was paid $363.00 on Sept.09 the second week I was paid $137.06 I have been calling Brian Ebanke including emails without any response plus phone calls with out a response.This is extremely disgrace, cold, calculated, crude, thief and mean, to steal from a man like who have not worked for the last 8 months of 2011 I will continue the fight to try to get the remainder of the 3 days pay that I am owed as I cannot afford to loose that.No way will I ever work for a group of blood sucking goons like United Labor Group |
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