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Bill to crack down on ‘coyotes’ bringing workers to Iowa construction sites
A group of senators is working on a bill aimed at unscrupulous recruiters who supply workers for taxpayer-funded construction projects in Iowa.
Felicia Hilton of the Carpenters Union said they’ve documented cases of labor brokers who pay substandard wages to workers or don’t pay them at all.
“Right now, they’re hidden,” Hilton said during a Senate subcommittee hearing this morning. “We’re not talking about the workers. We’re talking about the broker, the coyote, the people trafficking or bringing people into the state of Iowa to perform work this way and to leave them unpaid.”