Workers struggle to get what is owed them as bosses fail to pay

BEIJING - Yu Shouguo never expected that he and nine of his fellow villagers would still be waiting for their wages nearly two years after they toiled for a local contractor.

Yu, who is from a rural area outside Yantai city in East China's Shandong province, helped construct a building between March and July in 2009.

"The boss promised that we would be paid each month but he didn't keep his word," the 49-year-old told China Daily on Wednesday.