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A group of foreign workers, most of whom are Mexican nationals, have filed suit against three large timber corporations. The workers, who were here on H-2A visas for temporary agricultural work, claim they were not paid the prevailing wage by International Paper, Georgia-Pacific, or Champion International Corporation. The H-2A program requires that the US employer pay the foreign workers at least the prevailing wage received by US workers doing the same job. According to the complaint, not only were the workers not paid the prevailing wage, they were also not paid overtime. According to attorneys familiar with this area of immigration law, there could be as many as 6000 workers who are eligible to join the lawsuits against these three companies. They estimate the possible recovery to be in the millions of dollars.
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