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BP cleanup workers not paid after 40 days

Workers contracted by BP for the Gulf oil spill cleanup say they haven’t been paid yet. “Forty days. We ain’t seen (no money) yet,” one of the workers  told Yahoo News.  Many are protesting being forced to live on floating hotels—so called “flotels”—which are essentially spartan structures comparable to shipping containers or trailers stacked on a barge. A group of fishermen has even gone on strike to protest their accommodations. Some workers claim they were promised that they would be put up in motels but are forced to live in the flotels because they haven’t been paid and have depleted their savings.

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