A construction company hired to work on 11 schools and the Queens Museum underpaid 33 Ironworkers by nearly $900,000, City Comptroller Scott Stringer said May 18.
He gave the workers, many of them recent Guyanese immigrants, checks at a press conference in which he announced a prevailing-wage settlement with North American Iron Works and the contractor’s owner, Abdul Karim. The company paid its workers $16 per hour, less than half of what they were supposed to earn under the prevailing rate for public-works projects, which is set and enforced by the Comptroller.
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