Painter Solidarity
Solidarity — from the union, from workers on the job, and each other — is the force that exposed wage theft at a brand-new Pearl District apartment complex. Romeo Garcia, Alberto Avendaño, and Marcos Jimenez — pictured above at the office of Painters Local 10 — were among at least eight employees of C2 Professional Painting who were paid about half the $26.83 prevailing wage rate for painters at Parker Apartments. But after the Department of Labor investigated, general contractor Lorentz Bruun paid $85,000 to settle the underpayment of its subcontractor.
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