Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company has contracted with a Nevada firm to remove some of the large trees in our addition that get tangled up in their power lines. The
company is using Mexican labor. Some of them speak enough
English to be understood.

Guess what these men who work very hard and do dangerous work get paid? Three dollars an hour. This makes me so
mad to think of the exorbitant price O.G.&E is paying and
that the Nevada firm is getting because they are paying
less than half the minimum wage. A man can work all day in
the heat and humidity and only take home 24 dollars. It
is risky work too. They have to dangle from branches and use huge chain saws to get through these trees that have been planted in the sixties.

I became aware of this when they started removing trees
from my son's backyard. I only can only hope that the
company is housing and feeding them while they are here but
I bet they picked up their cheap labor here.

Greed knows no bounds.