VANCOUVER – A nearly five-year battle for fair pay has finally come to an end for a group of Latin American workers who helped build the Canada Line rapid transit link between Vancouver and Richmond, B.C.

A settlement has been reached between the roughly three dozen mainly-Costa Rican temporary foreign workers, and SELI Canada and SNC Lavalin, the builders of the Canada Line.

Two unions representing the workers say the will release video of the workers in Costa Rica receiving their cheques.

The employees won a multi-million dollar ruling from the BC Human Rights Tribunal when it found they had been paid about half as much as Europeans hired to perform the same construction jobs.

Some of the Latin American workers estimated they were owed tens-of-thousands of dollars, but the employer fought the tribunal ruling before eventually agreeing to a negotiated settlement.

The British Columbia and Yukon Territory Building and Construction Trades Council says details of the settlement agreement will be released during a news conference in Vancouver on Wednesday.