KUWAIT CITY, Jan 24: The simmering tensions below the surface are beginning to manifest in the work camp of a logistics company operating a fleet of tipper/dump trucks, where workers’ anger is stemming from management allegedly reneging on the contract terms and even in some instances bordering on out-right fraud.

According to some of the drivers who spoke to the Arab Times on their plight, they were made to sign contracts showing each of them had to do a maximum of two trips daily with their tipper trucks but four months down the line, the number of daily trips was raised to three without any hint of extra payment. To get them to do the extra work, the drivers were made to move from their rented accommodation into the company camp in Boubyan where they are cramped 12 people to a room.

Now the worst nightmare the drivers are facing is the fact that some of their work visas have expire without any effort being made to renew them and what the company does is that they allow them to continue working and once they get arrested by the police all the company does is submit their passports to the police for them to get deported instantly without them having the chance to pursue any financial claims whatsoever from their employers. They cited a Comoros national colleague as being one of the latest victims of such deportations.

Numerous phone calls by this reporter to get any official of the company to give their perspective as against the drivers’ version of the story went unanswered. The company in question is a Kuwait incorporated Logistics Company, which sometime early 2011 decided to absorb some of the truck drivers being jettisoned at the time by Agility Logistics after the latter had their food supply contract terminated by the US Army due to a contractual dispute.