Guest workers are corraled 25 to a room in Dubai. Should be great for the profit margins.

[Swede]

The people most vulnerable to this are the very workers putting up Dubai's glossy edifices. Thirty-nine of them died in building-site accidents last year - with at least some of the casualties resulting from inadequate safety provisions. Another 84 committed suicide last year, up from 70 in 2004.

The average pay for an unskilled labourer is around $4 a day, and that is enough of a lure for the impoverished of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to flock to the UAE. The jobs are arranged through contractors and those who get them have to take out loans, often at exorbitant rates of interest, to pay for their passage. On arrival in Dubai, their passports are confiscated to prevent absconding while they are on contract.


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article354070.ece

[Raven]

1. Well, Halliburton should

feel right at home.

[rox63]

2. Unfortunately, slavery is making a big comeback these days

It's the next step in growing corporate profitability. :puke:

[northofdenali]

3. See this new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center -

"guest worker" is such a nice name for indentured servitude or slavery, isn't it? And it's not just benefitting Halliburton in Dubai - it's all over the US as well. Ready to become a serf to a corporate King yet?

http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=247

New Center Report: Foreign Guestworkers Routinely Exploited by U.S. Employers

March 12, 2007 — Guestworkers who come to the United States are routinely cheated out of wages; forced to mortgage their futures to obtain low-wage, temporary jobs; held virtually captive by employers who seize their documents; forced to live in squalid conditions; and denied medical benefits for injuries, according to a new report released by the Center today.
The report — Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States — comes as Congress is about to begin debating immigration legislation that could greatly expand guestworker programs to cover hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of new temporary foreign workers.

"Congress should reform our broken immigration system, but reform should not rely on creating a vast new guestworker program," said Mary Bauer, director of the SPLC's Immigrant Justice Project and author of the report. "The current program is shamefully abusive in practice, and there is almost no enforcement of worker rights."

Scary. :scared::mad::scared: