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The local chapter of a national Latino civil rights group said it is trying to organize the city’s unofficial day laborer hiring site.
Workers at the site should take numbers and wait their turn to be hired, said Manny Marroquin, deputy district director of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
The numbering system would prevent the workers from mobbing cars that stop to offer work at the corner of El Toro and Jeronimo roads. Workers complained that rushing the cars has caused accidents and nearly caused some serious injuries.
Marroquin said he will ask the day laborers to sign a voluntary code of conduct promising to stay off the street, stay out of residential areas and not rush vehicles that stop at the corner.
Laborers at the site said they supported the plan.
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