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Article

30 Mar 2006

Author:
Jim Krane, Associated Press

UAE to give workers right to form unions

Hours after a human rights group blasted the United Arab Emirates for what it called wanton abuses of Asian workers, the country's labor minister said Thursday a law in the works will give laborers the right to form trade unions and bargain collectively. Labor Minister Ali al-Kaabi...said a new labor law negotiated alongside the trade pact with the U.S. would resemble reforms in neighboring Oman and Bahrain, which also signed U.S. trade deals.