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07/30/2007: "Day workers plagued by wage theft"

Wage theft is widespread among mostly illegal immigrant workers, especially those who are recruited on street corners and work in the shadows of the American labor force. And that work-related exploitation appears to be growing along with the country's immigrant population.

In the nation's first comprehensive study of day laborers, called ''On the Corner," UCLA researchers interviewed 2,660 workers at 264 hiring sites in 20 states, including Texas and the District of Columbia. The 2006 study concluded that almost half of all day laborers experienced at least one instance of wage theft in the two months prior to being surveyed.

[ More proof: they are tools of industry, we are tools of industry, and no one's minding future direction so it all falls apart from there. ]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5010068.html