Rent was due, and the construction workers were out of options.
So the six men who live in Des Moines pooled money for gasoline, piled into a car and drove west. When they arrived at their boss' suburban home, they demanded thousands of dollars in unpaid wages owed them.
Their demands, made in August, were initially unsuccessful.
"It was only fair," said Pedro, 32, of Mexico, through an interpreter. "I mean, we had done the work."
The Euro Masonry workers, who quit their jobs this month, provided only their first names to The Des Moines Register because they are working in the United States illegally and fear deportation.
In the past year, the federal government has investigated an increasing number of wage theft cases in an effort to prevent billions in lost worker pay and…
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/D2/20101017/NEWS05/10170352/Iowa-workers-feel-pay-theft-pinch
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