While massive strikes in France garner international headlines, Chan'ad points out that workers continue to strike in the UAE - a country where labor unions are outright banned (imagine the outrage if Chirac banned labor unions in France!). Just yesterday the Gulf News reported on the latest strike:
Hundreds of workers from the Dubai Contracting Company (DCC) refused to work yesterday after their colleague, Sayed Murad Ali Shah, 35, died of an electric shock on Thursday night at the Millennium Tower site on Shaikh Zayed Road. They said Khan did not receive any medical attention for at least an hour.
The article also includes a timeline of protests from the past two weeks in Dubai:
March 28: 300 workers protest at Al Jaddaf Port for two months' wages.
March 27: About 600 labourers illegally hired to work on a Palm Jumeirah site refuse to work after their company deducted Dh150 from their monthly salary of Dh750 to pay for meals.
March 21 to 22: Thousands of workers from Al Naboudah Laing O'Rourke smash cars and windows of company offices to demand better wages.
Across the Persian/Arabian Gulf straits, bus drivers are striking in Tehran - in another context where labor unions are banned. By regional standards, this is a "workers unite" explosion. Is a spectre haunting the Gulf? Karl Marx, call your agent.
They can't have unions banned forever just look at the United States history with unions.
Posted by: marshall | April 03, 2006 at 02:31 AM
The Trade Union movement has nothing to do with Marxism. Free unions are banned in most if not all Communist states.
Trade Unions grew from craft guilds. They are an essential element of any democratic society.
Posted by: Don Cox | April 03, 2006 at 09:29 AM
Thanks for pointing out the distinction between trade union organizing and marxism. The tongue-in-cheek comment at the end of the post was merely a tip to these small stirrings of a workers' uprising. But perhaps the attempt at humor missed the mark.
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They can't have unions banned forever just look at the United States history with unions.
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