Susie Grimes, Latisha, Elisha, and Josh Lidsey Missing Zac and Isaih LidseyThe RV lifestyle is not for everyone but I love it. Today we visited Sue and Josh and Latisha Lidsey in Campbellsville, KY. They are working the Amazon seasonal jobs. Sue started in Sept and Josh in November. They did this last year.
We all worked together (volunteer) at Wolfe Creek Fish Hatchery near Lake Cumberland Damn, last year.
Josh treated us to lunch. Thanks Josh. What a great day.
If interested check out this article written by some idiot on the journal newspaper in Louisville, KY. Talk is that someone has a problem with Amazon not paying union wages. Don't know nothing about that but they did take tid bits of the interview's and put them together to make RVing and working seem like desperate and deprived people.
This is long and the video on the web site is worth watching.
Holidays: a job.
Hard-up retirees and unemployed workers with children have converged on this rural town in RVs and campers to spend a few months earning $10 per hour filling orders at an Amazon warehouse.
Amazon offers a free place to park and plug in. When work ends Christmas Eve, the campers pull out.
Many have lost their homes and live on the road, home schooling their children along the way. Others are retirees who had planned to see the country but now work along the way to supplement depleted investments. Those not old enough for Medicare typically lack insurance.
We are among the economic refugees. We are lucky to earn enough to get our laundry done and eat macaroni and cheese,” said April McFail, 52. “I think it says America needs something different. This is supposed to be freedom and a good life. Now it is a sad note.”
McFail's husband, Terry, lost his job last year at Dow Chemical earning $18 hourly in southern Michigan. They lost their home to foreclosure in May. Pooling $8,000 in savings, they purchased a 1987 Winnebago and hit the road. They worked as campground hosts in South Dakota for the summer, arriving in September to begin work at Amazon.
We all worked together (volunteer) at Wolfe Creek Fish Hatchery near Lake Cumberland Damn, last year.
Josh treated us to lunch. Thanks Josh. What a great day.
If interested check out this article written by some idiot on the journal newspaper in Louisville, KY. Talk is that someone has a problem with Amazon not paying union wages. Don't know nothing about that but they did take tid bits of the interview's and put them together to make RVing and working seem like desperate and deprived people.
This is long and the video on the web site is worth watching.
Holidays: a job.
Hard-up retirees and unemployed workers with children have converged on this rural town in RVs and campers to spend a few months earning $10 per hour filling orders at an Amazon warehouse.
Amazon offers a free place to park and plug in. When work ends Christmas Eve, the campers pull out.
Many have lost their homes and live on the road, home schooling their children along the way. Others are retirees who had planned to see the country but now work along the way to supplement depleted investments. Those not old enough for Medicare typically lack insurance.
We are among the economic refugees. We are lucky to earn enough to get our laundry done and eat macaroni and cheese,” said April McFail, 52. “I think it says America needs something different. This is supposed to be freedom and a good life. Now it is a sad note.”
McFail's husband, Terry, lost his job last year at Dow Chemical earning $18 hourly in southern Michigan. They lost their home to foreclosure in May. Pooling $8,000 in savings, they purchased a 1987 Winnebago and hit the road. They worked as campground hosts in South Dakota for the summer, arriving in September to begin work at Amazon.
A short time later, April McFail's diabetes forced her to quit the Amazon job. She could not manage 10-hour shifts four days a week lifting packages up to 30 pounds each. Health-care benefits left over from her husband's job at Dow expire Tuesday.
'Amazon Gypsies'
Lunchboxes in hand, “Amazon Gypsies” walk down the hill to work from the company camp built on a gravel parking lot next to an auto junkyard. A nearby state park extended its hours through Christmas at Amazon's request.
Amazon pays campsite rental, water, sewer and electric. Some campers choose to save their propane and rely on electric blankets and heaters to stay warm at night.
Blankets cover the windows of the Wicklane family's 1997 Fleetwood ca
mper. An electric space heater whirrs on the worn linoleum floor. After losing an electrician's job and a house in Florida last year, Kurt Wicklane found work unloading Amazon trucks in Kentucky to feed two daughters, ages 3 and 9, and a son, 5
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Courier-journalCAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — Amazon.com has what many migrant workers want for the h
Hi Marie, I’m still reading your blog and enjoying it very much. Even though I haven’t commented lately I just had to on this article. Wow! What a distortion of facts. Anyone can put a slant making anything look bad. The writer for the Courier-Journal in Campbellsville, KY did just that. What about the one-million or so RV’ers RVing by choice and are not destitute as he seems to put all RV’ers in this melting pot of his? I didn’t see the video can you tell me if you posted that or is there a link I need to go to see it. Sorry to hear about all your transmission troubles. Just keep on; keeping on!
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