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SHARE: Democratic lawmakers and organized labor are pushing legislation in the final weeks of the legislative session to crack down on wage theft in the construction industry, which labor activists say is costing thousands of individual workers anywhere between $50 and $170,000 each per year. It all comes down to the idea of whether contractors should be legally responsible for any wages withheld by subcontractors. “It s not just about the members of the unions,” New York State Building and Construction Trades Council President Gary LaBarbera said in an interview. “It s about protecting all workers.” The construction and real estate industries oppose the legislation in its current form, which they say would harm the state recovery from the pandemic. Democratic state lawmakers and organized labor groups like the state AFL-CIO, however, say that action against wage theft is long overdue, especially considering how it affects workers who are disproportionately people of colo

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