Complaint / Review
United labor group
Disaster clean up

I was offered a job by United Labor Group. The pay would be $13 per hour. You'd work 7 days a week, 10 hour days, cleaning up a town called slave lake in Alberta, Canada, which had been devastated by a wildfire. You'd also get overtime after 40 hours. They set a meet time where you were suppose to show up in sweetgrass, Montana on a certain date and then cross into Canada in company vans. They pushed back the meet date several times. I thought it was odd that they never contacted me to let me know this. I was only finding out by happenstance because I was calling them with questions every day, like can I bring a laptop, can my friend also come work, etc. I paid over $200 to get a birth certificate and then an expedited passport for this job as both I and this company are located in the United States. I turned down what for me were incredible legitimate job opportunites because I wanted to do this. After being strung along for over two weeks with assurances that this job was actually going to happen, and that they were just jumping through legal hoops, they finally told that it wasn't going to happen. Wow. The real problem for me is that I held off on taking other jobs so as not to suddenly quit to leave for this one. I'm not some guy just sitting around collecting welfare or something. I could have taken another job. I'm pretty sure I'll have another job soon but it will not be the job that I turned down for this, which sucks. I should have been suspicious about their professionalism when instead of having me fill out an application or getting any personal information, they simply sent me an email telling me when and where to meet, and very little about the actual work. Wow. Just be careful of trusting them too much. They might have other legitimate gigs. It's possible they were just inexperienced and didn't realize the issues of getting Canada to accept foreign workers, when Canada has plenty of their own workers. Regardless, they assured me several times that this job would happen and it did not. I wish I had taken the other job.