Posted on 05/03/2016 7:28:55 AM PDT by Lorianne
Saudi Binladin Group employees set fire to buses in protes. Saudi Arabia outlines reform plan for oil-addicted economy. Saudi human rights activist sentenced to 9 years in prison
In Saudi visit, Obama works to calm Gulf tensions with US
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Employees at the Saudi Binladin Group, a construction giant, have set fire to more than seven company buses in the latest protest by disgruntled staff over not being paid salaries for months and a large round of reported layoffs.
Maj. Nayef al-Sharif, the spokesman for the Civil Defense in the city of Mecca, said late Saturday that firefighters put out the blaze without any injuries reported.
The attack on the company's buses comes a day after the Saudi Al-Watan newspaper quoted an unnamed source as saying the company has terminated employment for 50,000 foreign workers and issued them exit visas. Many of those workers are apparently refusing to leave without being paid their late wages, the newspaper reported.
Gulf-based construction firms have been among the hardest-hit due to lower oil prices that have curbed and sometimes delayed government spending on major infrastructure projects. In February, the president of the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Abdulrahman al-Zamil, wrote an open letter to King Salman saying that construction firms were struggling under the weight of delayed payments for their work on government projects.
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These people actually believe this!
“terminated employment for 50,000 foreign workers”
I know somebody who grew up in Saudi Arabia. He’s Indian.
He explained to me that Saudis don’t do a lot of work themselves, and hire foreigners to do most of it. Not only is it a society reliant on a sole commodity (oil), its a society with a scarcity of skills, since they hire out for skilled labor.
They’re a ticking time bomb.
Let the Saudis drink their oil, and pound their sand up the other end.
They've sucked the juice of life out of our economy for decades. Not feeling too sorry for them at this point.
No problem, the cost for vehicle repair will be deducted from their forthcoming paychecks.
This comes right off the top, before all the standard deductions for food, water, sleep space in the barn,toilet fees, Saudi air that was consumed...
mountn man you may like?
So they produce nothing, AND they know nothing?
Yeah, thanks.
I saw it about 1/2 an hour ago.
Thought about pinging you.
That’s going to have a bite on the Kingdom/Jeddah Tower.
It’s not slated to be done for another 4 years.
It won’t have much infrastructure around it to support it.
They’ll have the tallest building in the world
(if they finish it)
But no one will want to go see it.
At least Dubai has built up an entire tourism industry, to support its monsters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeddah_Tower
“So they produce nothing, AND they know nothing?”
Yep.
Less than a hundred years ago, it was nothing but goat herders.
I have a new job over in the Jeddah Tower on the 960 level!
Only takes about 45 min up or down, so makes for a short work day!
Fire? I keep a parachute and a big hammer under my desk.
Now that they have the goats all herded up, do you know what they do with them???
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