Labor Strike at Gulf Air

The Daily Star is reporting that 300 employees of Bahrain’s state-owned Gulf Air staged an hour-long sit in to protest job cuts and their lack of decision making power in the flailing airline’s restructuring plans.  Union head Mustafa al-Tooq threatened a full strike if he did not meet with Gulf Air management within the week. The article comments that, “labor action is rare in the Gulf Arab region, where the workforce largely consists of poorly paid Asian workers who are at the whim of their employers.”