Oil Spill Workers from Texas Feel Stranded
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Fishermen aren't the only ones frustrated about delayed jobs in oil spill clean-up; some have traveled hundreds of miles looking for work.
Miguel Gonzalez, a Texas resident, said, "when we were in Brownsville they said we were going to work the next day and it's been a week and we haven't worked at all."
Maxum-a recruiting company in New Iberia-- rushed Gonzalez and 50 other workers 600 miles from Brownsville, Texas to work on a clean up crew off Louisiana's coast---but Gonzalez says he's been here a week and still hasn't been put to work.
"We went up to the company and they said there's no job,“ Gonzalez said. “He said if we wanted to go home to find our own transportation, but the problem is they provided the transportation here, so how are we supposed to get back… just go walking
