Leaders from Minnesota’s property services union, SEIU Local 26, said they have uncovered instances of potential wage theft from three different Minnesota companies.

“Wage theft is a serious breach of trust, something that no one thinks could ever happen to them,” said Jen Guertin, an officer at St. Paul Regional Labor Federation. “When an employer willfully chooses to steal from its employees…it's a blatant crime.”

Union leaders said they looked into three different Ramsey and Hennepin County subcontractors and uncovered some $700,000 in unpaid wages.

Jhonnier Gazo works for one of the subcontractors at buildings owned by Ramsey County. He said he took an offer to do janitorial work at several Ramsey County worksites where he was paid $18 an hour. A union representative, whom he met wh

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