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Workers building a vast new US consulate in Milan, Italy, got a big pay day this week. More than 60 laborers, mostly from India, got around $50,000 each for alleged labor abuses. It was part of a nearly $35-million settlement agreed to last month with Alabama-based Caddell Construction.
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