Re: sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-contracting

[Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, December 16, 2005 1:21 PM [PDT],
michael perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> According to Democracy Now, FEMA pays prime contractors about $24 per
> cubic yard to remove debris; at the bottom of the chain of
> subcontracting, the fee is only four cubic dollars per yard; and even
> then apparently many of the workers are not even paid. Here is a
> portion of the transcript:
> 
> *BILL CHANDLER: *Well, as you stated, a large number of workers were
> recruited here from all over the country, mainly immigrants and many
> of them undocumented. And contractors, who we call the “bottom
> feeders” -- in other words, for example, a primary contractor like
> Halliburton or Bechtel receives a contract from FEMA to clean up the
> debris on the coast for about $24 a cubic yard. It is then
> sub-contracted down through a whole food chain of subcontractors to
> the bottom feeders, and in most instances, we found that they're
> getting around $4 a cubic yard. And those are the contractors that
> have been brought in and brought in immigrants to do the work.


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