"NYU student sit-in protests treatment of Abu Dhabi campus workers", 07 April 2015

About 30 students staged a sit-in at New York University on Monday to protest against mistreatment of workers who built the university’s Abu Dhabi campus in the United Arab Emirates. The mistreatment of the workers has been documented by the New York Timesand the Guardian, and in three progress reports from Human Rights Watch, one of which was published earlier this year. Workers were living more than a dozen to a room, and working 11-hour days,according to the reports. The workers said their wages were delayed and were lower than promised. The Human Rights Watch report found that some employers were “withholding workers’ wages and benefits, failing to reimburse them for recruiting fees, confiscating worker’s passports, and housing them in substandard accommodations.” The report went on to say that some contractors informed the United Arab Emirates of a workers’ strike, which led to the deportation of hundreds of workers...