PETER KENNEDY

VANCOUVER (The Globe & Mail) -- Foreign workers hired to dig tunnels at a $2-billion infrastructure project in Vancouver have signed up to join a union, after allegations they are being paid as little as $3.50 an hour by their employer.

The move was welcomed by trade union officials who allege that the group of 40 Latin American construction workers are being exploited by a consortium that is building the Canada Line rapid transit project.

"These workers have shown great solidarity and strength of character to stand up to their employer and demand equal rights," said Wayne Peppard, executive director of the B.C. and Yukon Territory Building and Construction Trades Council, or BYTC.

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