Foreign workers involved in building a new United States consulate in Milan—described as a sprawling $350 million State Department project—say they were paid less than $2 an hour. Workers allege that they were promised fair wages before taking the jobs but ultimately received pay far below that rate. The reports describe the consulate project as a major construction effort and frame the workers’ claims as a dispute over labor conditions and compensation.
Across the outlets, the central allegation is consistent: workers say their hourly pay was under $2. The coverage also emphasizes that the workers describe the pay discrepancy as contrary to earlier assurances about wages. While the articles focus on the workers’ testimony and the scale and cost of the consulate project, they do not present a unified set of findings from authorities within the provided summaries. The reports therefore concentrate on the workers’ claims rather than on confirmed outcomes of investigations or responses from the US government or contractors.
