After 18,000 Arabtec construction workers went on strike in 2007, the company says that the workers have gone back to work. The strike in Dubai, which hit one of the largest construction companies in the United Arab Emirates, was over wages. At least seventy workers were detained after the protest, but the rest have returned to work.
See "Arabtec?s Dubai-Based Workers End Wages Strike, Barry Says", Zainab Fattah and Alaa Shahine, Bloomberg News, January 25, 2011