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Xavier said these issues are not occurring on small home or business additions, but
on multimillion-dollar construction sites.
“The projects that I go out to every day and talk to these workers that are being
exploited under this new model are happening on multi-unit residential properties.
These are multimillion-dollar projects anywhere from a 30-unit building to a 300
multi-unit residential contract,” he said. “You don’t see many legitimate contractors
being able to compete in a lot of the segments of this market unless you are
cheating.”
He said the new model involves larger companies bidding on a job, then hiring
subcontractors who have a few employees on site. They also hire labor brokers who
hire day laborers, often undocumented workers, and pay them in cash only.
“The wages that these workers are making are definitely substandard. There are
lower wages, there’s no health insurance, there’s no pension,” Xavier said.
“Unfortunately, we’re fighting wages that my colleagues say 20 years ago they were
fighting. The only thing that changes in the model is that the workers end up
working more hours.”
These workers do not get health insurance or overtime pay and often work in unsafe
environments, an issue that became more prominent since the coronavirus
pandemic began, he said.
“We’re always out there on non-union job sites, trying to inform workers of the
rights that they do have,” Xavier said. “(During the pandemic) we shifted to an
informational campaign, so we started going out to all these different jobs and
talking to workers, letting them know that these are the guidelines, these are the
safety procedures that should be in place.”
Lesser said it’s important to bring this issue to light.