Veteran San Lucas Worker-Leader Randy Smith Advises Workers in New Cleveland Day Labor Campaign February 25, 2004 San Lucas president and Elite Labor-Tribune worker Randy Smith (red cap) advises workers and organizer of the Day Labor Organizing Committee (DLOC) in Cleveland February 25th. Day laborers in Cleveland face many of the same abuses as in the Chicago day labor industry---illegal fees, unpaid wages, discrimination by race and gender, sexual harassment, etc. Minutemen, which operates in the Chicago area, is based in Cleveland, and other agencies, such as Amertemp, also have offices in both cities. Randy Smith and the San Lucas organizer were flown to Cleveland by the National Training and Information Center, that supports National Peoples' Action (NPA) and other grassroots organizing. San Lucas is allied with similar projects in Springfield, MA, Minneapolis and Ohio through the Jobs Team of NPA. As the most veteran day labor organization in the country, and one of only two that organizes immigrants and U.S.-born workers together, San Lucas strives to share its success and experience to assist new campaigns. At the Cleveland meeting, Randy Smith showed the training video that San Lucas worker-leaders are making, talked about tactics, and then co-led a direct action against Minutemen, Inc., immediately after the meeting to protest the public exposure of day labor applicants on sign-in sheets at Minutemen offices. DLOC-Cleveland is supported by the East Side Organizing Project (ESOP), a veteran, multi-issue community organization. They have now initiated a campaign against Jacobs Field (where the Indians play) to protest that organization's contracting to the abusive Ameritemps chain.