Construction workers in Abu Dhabi held a strike for several hours on Monday...

The incident is the latest involving the same company...

Police and the company have been contacted for comment. Officers defused the situation...

skilled contractors from a separate company... began arriving for work. The unpaid labourers told them not to work either, in solidarity...

Another subcontractor... said: "The engineers probably negotiated with the workers,

"This happens every few weeks, the unpaid workers don't want anybody to work until they get paid.

"The senior engineers from the company negotiate with them and they give in and some accept a fraction of their salary."