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Immigrants Often Unpaid For Katrina Work
POSTED: 11:34 pm EST November 5, 2005
UPDATED: 11:34 pm EST November 5, 2005
GULFPORT, Miss. -- A pattern is emerging as the cleanup of Mississippi's Gulf Coast morphs into its multibillion-dollar reconstruction: Come payday, untold numbers of Hispanic immigrant laborers are being stiffed. Sometimes, the boss simply vanishes. Other workers wait on promises that soon, someone in a complex hierarchy of contractors will provide the funds to pay them.
Nonpayment of wages is a violation of federal labor law, but these workers _ thousands of them, channeled into teams that corral debris, swaddle punctured roofs in blue tarps and gut rain-ravaged homes _ are especially vulnerable because many are here illegally
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http://www.wral.com/apnationalnews/5258205/detail.html
POSTED: 11:34 pm EST November 5, 2005
UPDATED: 11:34 pm EST November 5, 2005
GULFPORT, Miss. -- A pattern is emerging as the cleanup of Mississippi's Gulf Coast morphs into its multibillion-dollar reconstruction: Come payday, untold numbers of Hispanic immigrant laborers are being stiffed. Sometimes, the boss simply vanishes. Other workers wait on promises that soon, someone in a complex hierarchy of contractors will provide the funds to pay them.
Nonpayment of wages is a violation of federal labor law, but these workers _ thousands of them, channeled into teams that corral debris, swaddle punctured roofs in blue tarps and gut rain-ravaged homes _ are especially vulnerable because many are here illegally
for the full story go here
http://www.wral.com/apnationalnews/5258205/detail.html