Fart Master, if you watched any english news channel last week, you would have seen the story on those plant workers that were on strike in protest against some foriegn workers on the job while the skilled english are unemployed.
I think these days with the world economical downturn, England and many parts of Europe have gone so far in the wrong direction when it came to hiring so many foriegners (thinking it would be less expensive), many more such strikes will take place in favour of local unemployed workers.
The only major difference is that the UAE does not have enough skilled, qualified or very experienced numbers to replace all the expats.