PALMDALE – The South Valley WorkSource Center (SVWSC), located at 38510 Sierra Highway in Palmdale, will host a “hiring fest” for several different employers on Thursday, Dec. 10, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Among the positions being recruited are:
- Cooks
- Banquet Servers
- Welders
- Aircraft/Automotive Technicians
- Production Painters
- Assembly Line Technicians
- Fabrication Technicians
- Truck Drivers (Class A license not required) H6 DMV printout needed
- Janitors
- Sales Associates
Among the employers in attendance will be Hilton Garden Inn, Altech Services, Inc., Robertson’s Ready Mix, Integrity Janitorial Services, Ni Hao Sushi & Dining and the South Valley WorkSource Center.
Interested persons should bring copies of relevant resumes and come dressed for success.
For more information, contact the South Valley WorkSource Center at 661-265-7421. View a flyer for this event here.
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Mario & Genee says
Please email for more info I’m interested
Mario says
Please call me, instead of email my number is 661-466-7633. Call me for more info I’m interested
Bingo Lady says
Psst! Hey! I heard they were hiring over at BYD in Lancaster. Used to be a buck fifty an hour, but after they got caught it went up 9 bucks an hour. Plus you get to play fun games like Safety Bingo. Looks like it would be a good fit.
John says
$1.50 an hour claim is a lie. No American worker ever got paid $1.50 an hour at BYD. Workers are paid at least $9 an hour with an average wage of $13.70 an hour.
Employees that are making less than $10 an hour will start getting $10 an next month.
Don’t believe what Bingo Lady posts about BYD. This person posts way too much false information.
*** says
Someone’s lying all right and it’s not Bingo Lady. John, any chance you’re Rex, or just one of his paid trolls?
Yes BYD paid ENGINEERS $1.50 an hour. Of course rex tried to say $50 a day in per diem along with a dorm room bed and meals raised that wage. Which is Rex’s usual disingenuous self. As a labor lawyer, he’s very aware that neither per diem or room and board (also called the “company store” for anyone who might remember those) can be considered part of any hourly wage. Of course the Chinese who complained were immediately sent home for some reeducation. A process I’m sure rex would love to instigate here!
“The workers, paid in RMB, were receiving $1.50 an hour and $50 a day. The Chinese employee’s wages are about 12 % below the minimum wage required at Foxconn, manufacturer of many electronic products, most notably Apple products, in China. The company was also not properly reporting these employees to State offices. The company’s defence was the employees were subject to Chinese law not United States law.”
http://chinadailymail.com/2014/01/17/chinas-byd-fined-for-paying-chinese-workers-1-50-per-hour-in-california/
*** says
Not only did they pay almost nothing for an engineer, (a educated position, that requires 4 years of college) that pulls down more like $30 an hour (NOT $13.70, which “John” seems to think is just awesome!) But they paid 12% less than wages in China. 12% less than dirt wages being paid in a totalitarian country! NOT 12% less than an American company! Think about that for a minute! John, go run to your master. No ones buying your lies here!
Another article covering the $1.50 an hour!
LOS ANGELES – It was with great excitement that California elected officials welcomed the Chinese company Build Your Dreams (BYD) to build electric buses in places like Lancaster, Long Beach, and Los Angeles. Hopes were high that BYD’s Zero Emissions buses would clean the air, and hundreds of Angelenos would go to work in BYD’s new downtown Los Angeles office, earning paychecks to support their families.
But earlier this month news reports revealed that the company’s promises of jobs and quality products couldn’t be more hollow. The California Department of Industrial Relations issued BYD numerous citations on Oct. 10, fining the company $79,250 and requiring it to pay $20,000 in back wages to 22 employees.
City officials, according to the Los Angeles Times, expected that the deal with BYD would bring thousands of jobs to the area, but three-and-a-half years later, fewer than 40 workers are locally employed by BYD and quite a few of the workers who the company has employed are Chinese workers here on visas.
According to the Times, those workers have been living in dormitory-style housing for up to six months, getting paid only $1.50 per hour and a $50 a day allowance. The state agency that cited BYD found that the company failed to pay the workers minimum wage, didn’t give them all of their legally mandated rest breaks and improperly reported wages to the workers.
http://peoplesworld.org/unsafe-buses-being-built-in-la-with-1-50-per-hour-chinese-labor/
Bingo Lady says
You’re right, John. Don’t believe me. Believe the what the articles say about BYD. That employees are afraid to speak out in fear of their jobs. Sounds like Lancaster, doesn’t it, John? What happens when people speak up against Rex? Ask Johnathan Ervin.
Want to play some Safety Bingo, John?
I Spy says
I bet the spies get paid well.
*** says
Where’d ja go John? Afraid someone will prove you wrong? No worries. That’s already been done!
Bingo Lady says
John went back to the law office and reported back to his master. “I wrote what you said, Ray, but they keep using the articles in the LA Times. I’ll keep writing what you say but they keep using the articles. I don’t think they believe us, Ray.”
Common Sense says
Common sense don’t post your name and info here. That is putting NO EFFORT into YOUR job SEARCH! You have to attend the “Hiring Fest” with a resume and dressed for success. If you can’t follow simple instructions on how to apply for a job you surely won’t be able to follow simple instructions on how to do the job.
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Dollah Fitty says
Will BYD be there with their dollar fifty and hour positions?
John says
Wages at the Lancaster plant is at least $9 an hour, with an average rate of $13.70 per hour for factory workers.
BYD did not violate state minimum wage laws, and an investigation proved that. Factory workers at BYD’s plant in Lancaster average 14.2 percent more salary than comparable workers in California, according to PayScale.com.
Bingo Lady says
BYD is being scrutinized once again for violating its agreement with Los Angeles by failing to pay a living wage to employees at its downtown facility.
Of course, our mayor thinks $9 an hour is living wage. Not even in dilapidated Lancaster will $9 an hour let you make it. So much for his promise of “high paying jobs.” His infatuation with China will bring us more low wage jobs, if any jobs at all.
I guess the lucky few BYD workers who win at Safety Bingo can bring home a little extra bacon.
Read all about it: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-wage-promise-20151201-story.html
John says
Labor unions are bringing up these accusations. The unions want control of BYD labor and BYD want the employees to vote to unionize.
Hmm… $9 an hour job or no job. What to do, what to do.
If BYD is offering $9 an hour positions there would be a line of applicants going out the front door and around the corner.
But wait! Workers will now be making $10 an hour in January.
Mayor Parris promised jobs. He never promised “high paying’ jobs.
Turd Ferguson says
Want to bet the pilot of LEAPS makes more that $9 an hour?Want to bet the pilot of LEAPS makes more that $9 an hour?How much do you think Rex’s political contributor makes on the $90,000.00 a month piece of turd?How much do you think Rex’s political contributor makes on the $90,000.00 a month piece of turd?For ten years.For ten years.That is $10,800,000.00.That is $10,800,000.00.With no return on our tax dollars.With no return on our tax dollars.Even tax dollars from Rex’s $9.00 an hour BYD jobs.Even tax dollars from Rex’s $9.00 an hour BYD jobs.No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.
Bingo Lady says
R. Rex Parris is one of the biggest job killers this area has ever seen.
He chased Starwood out of town with one of his famous lawsuits and they promised 900 jobs to their new state.
He sued two of our neighboring cities and school districts which drained money from their accounts that could have been used to boost the economy.
He has diverted $10 million in Lancaster tax dollars to fund the Frank Visco owned “Eye in the Sky”.
He is trying to kill a natural gas electric power facility that would create high paying jobs unlike his $9 BYD jobs.
Think of all the people who won’t shop in Lancaster on account of him. That hurts.
Thankfully, our neighboring cities of Mojave, Palmdale, and Santa Clarita are bringing REAL jobs to the area. The Spaceship Company, Kinkysharo, Northrup Grumman, Disney/ABC Studios at the Ranch, and all the other companies opening around Lancaster bring hope of real jobs, and not more of Rex’s $9 an hour BS from companies that don’t pay living wages and treat their employees to sham incentive games like “Safety Bingo”.
It’s time for Rex to go, and to take his vision of jobs with him.
Worker says
Blaming the unions for sketchy practices like “safety bingo” is typical scapegoating, a common tactic used by Parris. The workers, not the unions, are complaining about the situation. BYD is off to a rough start. Once the government subsidies dry up, will the wages and conditions be worse?
John says
The workers did not complain about the situation. It was Jobs to Move America coalition that lodged the complaint to the city. No mention of any worker complaints in the article.
I agree with L.A County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, this is just harassment.
Bingo Lady says
In case you’d like to read the story, John, here’s the link. Employees brought up the ‘Safety Bingo’ BS. Like most people in Lancaster, they are afraid to give their names in fear of retribution. It’s a common value here, that comes directly from our bully mayor.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-byd-dispute-20151201-story.html
Eight workers at the Lancaster plant, who declined to be quoted by name because they feared they would lose their jobs, earlier told The Times they had complaints about working conditions. For instance, the employees alleged that work such as sanding down fiberglass was done in areas exposed to other laborers without adequate protection.
Get your facts straight, John, or else go to work for the Mayor’s propaganda team. I hear they pay well, although you will have to leave your integrity at the door.
Facts R Facts says
Facts are a stubborn thing, especially for Parrisites. The workers did complain to LA Times reporters but feared for their jobs. Sound familiar? Not to us in Lancaster.
John says
The article you linked to before did not have any information about employee complaints on working conditions. Now you post a different article stating that some employees have complaints about working conditions.
Nice bait and switch, kudos.
Bingo Lady says
Do we have to place the whole article here for you, John, or is clicking on a link too difficult?
Seeing how you defend our fearless mayor, I will save you the trouble and place the entire article and the link for you. Have a nice day.
This is the link:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-byd-dispute-20151201-story.html
This is the story. Paragraphs 17 and 20 mention the workers complaints about conditions and safety bingo.
A coalition of labor and community groups stepped up its battle with a Chinese-owned company that manufactures electric vehicles in Los Angeles County on Tuesday, accusing the firm of breaking promises and failing to provide safe “living wage” jobs with the tens of millions of dollars the firm has received from government contracts and other public investment.
Los Angeles city officials are already seeking documents from Build Your Dreams — better known as BYD — in reaction to allegations that the company violated L.A.’s “living wage” rules mandating minimum pay for city contractors under an agreement signed five years ago.
At a Tuesday news conference, the pro-labor coalition Jobs to Move America also claimed that the firm scaled back its plans to hire locally after it snagged a contract to build electric buses for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
“This is one more outrage to the series of outrages that have been committed by this huge, multibillion-dollar company,” Jobs to Move America director Madeline Janis said, urging public agencies that awarded contracts to hold the firm accountable.
BYD has denied the allegations, saying that it has kept its contractual promises and provides good jobs with competitive pay. Company officials argue the firm has come under attack because it disagreed with labor activists over the process for possibly unionizing its workers.
The company got the highest marks for its local hiring plan when it bid against other companies for the Metro contract. But at the news conference, Janis pointed to an update to the bid documents in which BYD said it was planning to “produce all of the buses” in China.
Metro officials countered that the Jobs to Move America claims of BYD backtracking on its promises were erroneous. The agency said it had always anticipated that the buses would be at least partly manufactured in China.
“The plan all along was for them … to build the car shells in China and to do final assembly in the United States,” Metro interim executive officer of vendor/contract management Victor Ramirez said.
Ramirez said the same document indicated each bus would probably require at least 100 hours of inspection and other local work before being delivered. The update that Janis had pointed to was only a “clarification” that was factored into the bid scoring before BYD was awarded the contract, agency officials said.
The Jobs to Move America “assertion is patently false,” BYD corporate counsel John Zhuang said, contending that Metro and BYD both understood that “the Metro contract would have buses produced in China” and that the company had “far exceeded what we promised.”
“Many parts of our [Metro] buses are built right here in Lancaster, and we’ve hired 58 new employees,” Zhuang said in an email.
Janis said that the number of hours the document stated that local workers would spend on the buses was meager in light of their total cost.
The company earlier denied allegations that it had violated a Los Angeles law that mandates minimum pay for city contractors. The firm said it has paid workers at its L.A. facility at or above that wage level, even though it argues it was exempt from those rules under the agreement to refurbish a Figueroa Street building as a new headquarters.
L.A. city contracting officials say those rules did apply to the $1.6-million agreement and that the company is out of line with city rules because it failed to turn over payroll documents. BYD, in turn, says it already turned over records to the city three years ago.
Labor activists also alleged at the news conference that workers have faced safety issues at the Lancaster plant.
Workers “deserve to be treated well, especially by a company that’s received millions of our tax dollars,” said Los Angeles County Federation of Labor press secretary Gabriella Landeros.
Eight workers at the Lancaster plant, who declined to be quoted by name because they feared they would lose their jobs, earlier told The Times they had complaints about working conditions. For instance, the employees alleged that work such as sanding down fiberglass was done in areas exposed to other laborers without adequate protection.
BYD denied many of the allegations about safety lapses and says it has never had a significant workplace injury that led to lost time on the job.
In an interview last week, company vice president of sales Macy Neshati said that sanding down fiberglass would only occur in specially licensed booths unless workers were making slight adjustments. He said that another safety issue raised by workers – drivers spending excessive hours on the road – had occurred in a few cases but was “not something we condone, endorse or ask for.”
Workers also complained that the company had recently instituted a process called “safety bingo” that allowed workers to win a growing pot of money if no accidents were reported, a pot that dropped down to a smaller sum if someone reported an accident.
Such a practice “creates a situation where employees harass workers not to turn in issues,” said James W. White Jr., director of organizing for the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers union.
Neshati said the process was common at many corporations. “The incentive is not to not report injuries, the incentive is to work safely and to make sure that people around you are working safely,” he said.
Labor activists recently clashed with BYD over the process for possibly unionizing its employees. Company officials balked at a proposed “card check” agreement that would require it to recognize a union if the majority of its workers sign cards asking to form one.
Union leaders often prefer that system to holding an election, a longer process they say can be used to intimidate workers. BYD President Stella Li said the company affirms the right for workers to unionize, but “we believe it should be done the right way” using formal elections.
Bingo Lady says
John, John, John. Like our fearless mayor, you need to realize just because you say something doesn’t mean it is true.
Read the article John. Here. I’m posting it and the link for you.
This is the link:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-byd-dispute-20151201-story.html
This is the story. Paragraphs 17 and 20 mention the workers complaints about conditions and safety bingo.
A coalition of labor and community groups stepped up its battle with a Chinese-owned company that manufactures electric vehicles in Los Angeles County on Tuesday, accusing the firm of breaking promises and failing to provide safe “living wage” jobs with the tens of millions of dollars the firm has received from government contracts and other public investment.
Los Angeles city officials are already seeking documents from Build Your Dreams — better known as BYD — in reaction to allegations that the company violated L.A.’s “living wage” rules mandating minimum pay for city contractors under an agreement signed five years ago.
At a Tuesday news conference, the pro-labor coalition Jobs to Move America also claimed that the firm scaled back its plans to hire locally after it snagged a contract to build electric buses for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
“This is one more outrage to the series of outrages that have been committed by this huge, multibillion-dollar company,” Jobs to Move America director Madeline Janis said, urging public agencies that awarded contracts to hold the firm accountable.
BYD has denied the allegations, saying that it has kept its contractual promises and provides good jobs with competitive pay. Company officials argue the firm has come under attack because it disagreed with labor activists over the process for possibly unionizing its workers.
The company got the highest marks for its local hiring plan when it bid against other companies for the Metro contract. But at the news conference, Janis pointed to an update to the bid documents in which BYD said it was planning to “produce all of the buses” in China.
Metro officials countered that the Jobs to Move America claims of BYD backtracking on its promises were erroneous. The agency said it had always anticipated that the buses would be at least partly manufactured in China.
“The plan all along was for them … to build the car shells in China and to do final assembly in the United States,” Metro interim executive officer of vendor/contract management Victor Ramirez said.
Ramirez said the same document indicated each bus would probably require at least 100 hours of inspection and other local work before being delivered. The update that Janis had pointed to was only a “clarification” that was factored into the bid scoring before BYD was awarded the contract, agency officials said.
The Jobs to Move America “assertion is patently false,” BYD corporate counsel John Zhuang said, contending that Metro and BYD both understood that “the Metro contract would have buses produced in China” and that the company had “far exceeded what we promised.”
“Many parts of our [Metro] buses are built right here in Lancaster, and we’ve hired 58 new employees,” Zhuang said in an email.
Janis said that the number of hours the document stated that local workers would spend on the buses was meager in light of their total cost.
The company earlier denied allegations that it had violated a Los Angeles law that mandates minimum pay for city contractors. The firm said it has paid workers at its L.A. facility at or above that wage level, even though it argues it was exempt from those rules under the agreement to refurbish a Figueroa Street building as a new headquarters.
L.A. city contracting officials say those rules did apply to the $1.6-million agreement and that the company is out of line with city rules because it failed to turn over payroll documents. BYD, in turn, says it already turned over records to the city three years ago.
Labor activists also alleged at the news conference that workers have faced safety issues at the Lancaster plant.
Workers “deserve to be treated well, especially by a company that’s received millions of our tax dollars,” said Los Angeles County Federation of Labor press secretary Gabriella Landeros.
Eight workers at the Lancaster plant, who declined to be quoted by name because they feared they would lose their jobs, earlier told The Times they had complaints about working conditions. For instance, the employees alleged that work such as sanding down fiberglass was done in areas exposed to other laborers without adequate protection.
BYD denied many of the allegations about safety lapses and says it has never had a significant workplace injury that led to lost time on the job.
In an interview last week, company vice president of sales Macy Neshati said that sanding down fiberglass would only occur in specially licensed booths unless workers were making slight adjustments. He said that another safety issue raised by workers – drivers spending excessive hours on the road – had occurred in a few cases but was “not something we condone, endorse or ask for.”
Workers also complained that the company had recently instituted a process called “safety bingo” that allowed workers to win a growing pot of money if no accidents were reported, a pot that dropped down to a smaller sum if someone reported an accident.
Such a practice “creates a situation where employees harass workers not to turn in issues,” said James W. White Jr., director of organizing for the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers union.
Neshati said the process was common at many corporations. “The incentive is not to not report injuries, the incentive is to work safely and to make sure that people around you are working safely,” he said.
Labor activists recently clashed with BYD over the process for possibly unionizing its employees. Company officials balked at a proposed “card check” agreement that would require it to recognize a union if the majority of its workers sign cards asking to form one.
Union leaders often prefer that system to holding an election, a longer process they say can be used to intimidate workers. BYD President Stella Li said the company affirms the right for workers to unionize, but “we believe it should be done the right way” using formal elections.
Anon says
Don’t waste your time Bingo Lady. John is a Parrisite. They believe what their leader tells them despite the facts. It is clear by the article in the LA Times that workers at the Lancaster factory complained about conditions and were scared of losing their jobs. They also talked about safety bingo. Let John wallow in the cesspool our mayor has created.
Son of the Anti Rex says
Finally Parris has lived up to his word. He never promised high paying jobs, and he has made good on that promise. He has not delivered high paying jobs. Thanks for nothing.
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