Student solidarity with Qatari workers
Working conditions in Qatar, in particular for migrant workers, are at an appalling level. Conditions have been recently compared by the International Trade Union Confederation to “modern day slavery”. University College London (UCL) is, along with several other European and North American universities, one of the many educational institutions to have a campus in Doha’s “Education City”. The University and Colleges Union (UCU) has been heavily critical of UCL’s refusal to do anything to ensure that the rights of the workers there, many of whom are migrants from South Asian countries such as...