Iraq

  • Is U.S. Pulling Plug on Iraqi Workers?
    David Bacon
    Aug 31 2010 - 10:05am

    Early July 21 police stormed the offices of the Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union in Basra. A shamefaced officer told President Hashmeya Muhsin that they'd come to shut the union down.

  • Iraq Oil Union Leaders Face Arrest, Threats
    Labor Notes Staff
    Jul 16 2010 - 7:15am

    The outspokenness of Iraq’s Federation of Oil Unions against foreign military occupation and corporate incursions into the oil fields has gained it a lot of powerful enemies.

    Since the 2003 U.S. invasion, it has been organizing workers in publicly owned oil fields into the nation’s largest independent worker federation, even though organizing in the public sector continues to be illegal, as it was under Saddam Hussein.

  • Iraq Teachers Union Under Attack

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    The Iraq Teachers Union (ITU) has been actively working for greater union and organizing rights under the new Iraqi constitution. But in the last few weeks the government has attempted to seize the union from its members and leaders.

    The government appointed a special body to preside over the union and force it to hold elections. The ITU has had multiple conferences in which union leaders have been elected openly and democratically, the last one in late 2007 to elect a new president.

    The government is demanding that the union hand over the keys to its buildings and offices, as well as its records and membership information. It has told the elected leaders of the ITU to step down or be jailed.

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    Sun, 05/31/2009 - 8:59pm

  • Still Under Occupation, Iraqi Unions Find U.S. Allies

    Michael Eisenscher

    Long repressed, Iraqi unions are finding remarkable ways to resist the conditions rising from a foreign army’s occupation and help serve the people of Iraq. . . .


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