Getting that last weeks pay is often delayed. And in one case for me, came from the middleman over time on the next contract. They surrendered their cut until we were square.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov