Emeute ouvrière à القوز‎ Al Quoz (Dubai) – 4 janvier 2011

Rioting workers in labour camp protest

constructionweekonline.com

by Stephen White on Jan 4, 2011

Reports that a security guard was killed during rioting involving 2,000 workers at a labour camp in the Al Quoz district of Dubai have been denied by the camp’s manager.

He told Construction Week Online that security guards and workers were injured when a New Years party at the camp turned violent.

Local media reports have claimed that the trouble started after guards tried to break up a fight between some workers and were allegedly attacked. A spokesman for camp owners HR Jams Solutions is quoted by 7DAYS newspaper as saying that: « Some other guards recipocated and assaulted a worker. »

Despite the presence of local police, rioting is said to have continued into Sunday, leaving buses, furniture and windows wrecked in its wake.

Labor camp in Al Quoz damaged

topnews.ae

Sadik Al Rumaithi on Tue, 01/04/2011 – 19:27

Large scale damage was caused to the labor camp in Al Quoz, which happened due to the riots. Infuriated workers who were agitating against the mistreatment of security guards damaged the place on Saturday night.

The whole issue started when an argument between the workers and the guards took the shape of a fight and later on the police had to intervene to stop the two sides.

No comments were available from either of the sides. Officials from Jams HR Solutions said that the company considered is going to look into the matter and is going to take care of all the losses. Even buses were destroyed during the riots. More…

Informations

Al Quoz (Arabic: القوز‎), or Al Goze, is a locality in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Al Quoz is located in western Dubai. It is bordered to the north by Al Wasl and to the west by Umm Al Sheif, Al Manara and Al Safa. Al Quoz comprises four subcommunities which make up the Al Quoz Industrial District: