New York subway cleaners claw back millions in back pay

Around 450 immigrant workers who were hired to disinfect New York City's subway trains at the height of the Covid pandemic have just been awarded more than $3 million in back pay.The workers are claimed to have been underpaid by around $14 dollars per hour and were not provided with respirators or uniforms.During the pandemic the New York City Transit Authority entered into contracts with private cleaning companies to carry out the deep cleaning and disinfection of underground train carriages wi