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Alice Herman in Madison and Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington

Uline turned to Mexico to staff warehouses, but paid them a fraction of US workers, sources say

A Uline warehouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
A Uline warehouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Photograph: Wirestock, Inc./Alamy

Uline, a Wisconsin-based office supply company owned by one of Donald Trump’s biggest financial backers, paid workers it brought from Mexico to work at its US warehouses just a fraction of what their US counterparts were paid, according to four sources who spoke to the Guardian.

The workers from Mexico earned per day about the same as their US counterparts were paid by the hour, according to the American and Mexican sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of nervousness about speaking out publicly against the company. One pay stub, which was seen by the Guardian, showed that a Mexican worker was paid about $38 per day, plus a weekly bonus of about $225 before taxes. Separately, they were also paid daily food expenses.

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