Grim Conditions for Construction Workers at NYU Abu Dhabi

Migrant workers involved in the construction of New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus faced harsh conditions, The New York Times reported. In interviews with dozens of workers, the newspaper found that conditions were “starkly different” from those articulated in the university’s “statement of labor values," with the migrant workers reporting that they had to pay fees to recruitment agencies of up to a year’s wages (and had never been reimbursed, contrary to NYU’s stated policies), that they worked 11- to 12-hour days, six to seven days a week, and that they were not permitted to hold on to their own passports. Read more...