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Article

23 May 2013

Author:
Al Jazeera

Dubai's striking workers in their own words

A strike by low-wage workers at Arabtec - the construction giant building the Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, a branch campus of New York University and a series of other megaprojects - has ended after police entered labour camps and immigration services issued a series of deportation notices. United Arab Emirates security forces converged on camps operated by Arabtec on Monday, workers told Al Jazeera, and labourers continue to receive deportation orders as part of the fallout. Arabtec workers interviewed by Al Jazeera say they earn between $102-$325 per month, and send as much as they can back to their families in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and other countries. Arabtec officials have said they were paying the workers according to their contracts...[from one interview]: Al Habtoor [another large contractor] pay their workers much better...