http://www.dominionpaper.ca/taxonomy/term/731/0 en http://www.dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/dru/943 <p>The Associated Press and AFP are reporting that <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D5CBF2ED-EDEC-4B11-BB74-1A9707987DA4.htm">four workers are dead</a> and twenty-five injured in a major construction accident.</p> <p>What none of the agencies (so far, that I've seen) are saying is that an accident this bad was pretty much inevitable, given the <a href="http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/03/28/uae13090.htm">sub-human treatment of migrant workers who are building Dubai</a>, and the incredibly strenuous conditions and long hours they are forced to work.</p> http://www.dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/dru/943#comments labour media migration Middle East Dubai United Arab Emirates Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:45:40 +0000 dru 943 at http://www.dominionpaper.ca