may 4th
how arabs treat indians just asking for fair wages.
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Subject: UAE Deports 80 Workers for Taking Part in Strike
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 05:44:04 +0100 (BST)
From: Shah
To: Rajeev Srinivasan
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Monday, 1, May, 2006 (03, Rabi` al-Thani, 1427)
UAE Deports 80 Workers for Taking Part in Strike
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
DUBAI, 1 May 2006 — Some 80 construction workers, most of them Indians,
have been deported from Dubai after protests seeking better pay and
living conditions, reports said yesterday.
A worker from the Al-Ahmadiyah Contracting and Trade Company who asked
not to be named for fear of repraisals from the company said the men
were taken Thursday and Friday night.
“Police went to their rooms and took the men who had been more outspoken
during the protest and others of their co-workers just because they were
in the same room. They took them the way they were dressed to sleep and
did not give them time to change their clothes,” said the worker.
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2 comments:
And I am sure they must be Hindus. Otherwise, the shitty media of India and secular ministers would have created a ruckus by now.
Anyway, let us make India strong enough, that our people dont have to go to Arabia (of all places in the world) to earn a living.
All the oil sheikhdoms treat Asian immigrant workers like slaves -- or worse than slaves. (One possible exception was Iraq, but then it was not a "sheikhdom". With the fall of Saddam Hussein, the situation in Iraq is the same as in middle east sheikdoms.) A couple of examples follow:
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=44082 The Indian Express Wednesday, March 30, 2005 at 1134 hours IST — Riyadh, March 30: Nur Miyati lies on a Saudi hospital bed, her hands bandaged, her toes black from gangrene and her body still marked with bruises.
Whispering hoarsely, the 22-year-old Indonesian housemaid tells of the abuse she says she suffered at the hands of her employer, who beat her when she asked for her salary and locked her up when he left the house. . . . Miyati is one of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians who leave home to work in Saudi Arabia, part of a 6-million strong foreign labour force in the oil-rich Gulf state which includes workers from India, the Philippines, Pakistan and Bangladesh. . . .
And this is the situation in Iraq now: http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12675 Blood, Sweat & Tears: Asia’s Poor Build US Bases in Iraq By David Phinney; CorpWatch | Monday 03 October 2005 § Jing Soliman left his family in the Philippines for what sounded like a sure thing — a job as a warehouse worker at Camp Anaconda in Iraq. His new employer, Prime Projects International (PPI) of Dubai, is a major, but low-profile, subcontractor to Halliburton’s multi-billion-dollar deal with the Pentagon to provide support services to US forces. § But Soliman wouldn’t be making anything near the salaries — starting $80,000 a year and often topping $100,000 — that Halliburton’s engineering and construction unit, Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) pays to the truck drivers, construction workers, office workers, and other laborers it recruits from the United States. Instead, the 35-year-old father of two anticipated $615 a month — including overtime. For a 40-hour work week, that would be just over $3 an hour. But for the 12-hour day, seven-day week that Soliman says was standard for him and many contractor employees in Iraq, he actually earned $1.56 an hour. ...
Please note that Soliman's employer in Iraq was a Dubai company!
I am sure there are quite a number of bloggers familiar with the Middle East sheikhdoms. (I am not, except through what I read in newspapers and on the Internet.) I wish they would comment.
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