Interesting and timely. The "sessional instructors" at my university called "Unit C" in the union are negotiating a contract and have already been given a strike mandate.
Not sure I would want to set foot in the UAE, no matter how much they pay. From Wikipedia: UAE has escaped the Arab Spring; however, more than 100 Emirati activists were jailed and tortured because they sought reforms.[55][155][156] Since 2011, the UAE government has increasingly carried out forced disappearances.[157][158][159][160][161][162] Many foreign nationals and Emirati citizens have been arrested and abducted by the state, the UAE government denies these people are being held (to conceal their whereabouts), placing these people outside the protection of the law.[156][158][163] According to Human Rights Watch, the reports of forced disappearance and torture in the UAE are of grave concern.[159] Would you work there?Flogging and stoning are legal punishments in the UAE. Many laws continue to discriminate against women. For example, Emirati women must receive permission from a "male guardian" to marry and remarry.[134] The requirement is derived from Sharia law, and has been federal law since 2005.[134] Some housemaids in the UAE are victims of Sharia judicial punishments such as flogging and stoning. The annual Freedom House report on Freedom in the World has listed the United Arab Emirates as "Not Free" every year since 1999 (the first year for which records are available on their website).[76]