Let Me See Your ID [1]
Construction Citizen received a video from a fan yesterday. It shows some guys in hard hats walking onto a Whiting -Turner Construction site in Abington, Pa. and asking the laborers for their papers in an effort to determine whether they were legal. They were not ICE or Department of Labor. They began by telling everyone that they were not in any trouble, but that they were just trying to understand whether they are “undocumented” workers. What they were told is an example of what Construction Citizen has been telling you about wage theft and worker misclassification. It is also a classic example of how a general contractor can, in good faith, hire a sub contractor and the sub, in turn, hires “undocumenteds” or contracts with a labor broker to do the work.
According to one of our fans, the language translations are not exactly correct, but you can judge for yourself. One of the comments on YouTube said that the project is still underway and no one has arrested the illegal workers. Whiting-Turner is a major contractor in the US who has operations in 29 cities [12]. Another of our fans asked how these guys just walked onto the jobsite without anyone stopping or questioning them.
What do you think about this one? Do you have similar stories?