Workers strike in Dubai

7 Days, (Dubai’s equivalent of the UK’s free morning paper the Metro), reported yesterday that workers employed by Gunal Construction Trading and Industry in Dubai refused to work over the weekend because of the substandard conditions in which they are living.
The article reports that raw sewage was overflowing from septic tanks in workers’ accommodation [...]

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DBlackadder (Creative Commons Licence) Views from our Asia Pacific Network: Unrest in the Bangladeshi Garment Industry

This is the second article in the series of ‘viewpoints’ being issued by Impactt as part of the launch of our Asia Pacific Network. This viewpoint comes from Selima Akhtar, our associate in Bangladesh, and focuses on how severe inflation and poor wages have triggered violent unrest in the [...]

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