Human Rights Watch: Migrant Workers

migrant workers: DUBAI - A strike by thousands of migrant workers at Dubai's biggest builder Arabtec last month may be a harbinger of a new wave of industrial activism that threatens to disrupt the Gulf's latest construction boom. , according to Reuters. "Any Gulf government that seeks to significantly reform its labor system will face tremendous opposition from its national employers who benefit greatly from legal and regulatory shortcomings," said Nicholas McGeehan, researcher for Qatar, the UAE and Bahrain at Human Rights Watch, a U.S-based non-governmental research and rights advocacy group. By Praveen Menon Gulf nations have relied heavily on the supply of cheap labor from Asia to build their vast housing and infrastructure needs. But their treatment of foreign workers has been criticized repeatedly by rights groups who have demanded that governments repeal oppressive labor laws. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.