[C]onstruction workers, a million strong here and famously mistreated, have won some humble victories. After several years of unprecedented labor unrest, the government is seeking peace with this army of...migrants... Regulators here have enforced midday sun breaks, improved health benefits, upgraded living conditions and cracked down on employers brazen enough to stop paying workers at all... Until the government recently began insisting on summer sun breaks, one Dubai emergency room alone was reporting thousands of heat exhaustion cases each month... The government does not track job-related injuries and deaths, though it is required by law to do so... Still much about the workers’ lives remains unchanged... unions remain off limits. [refers to Industrial and Engineering Enterprises, Al Hamed Development & Construction]