News Iraqi Labor Unions: Ao Untapped Force for Change
(-A ,1 f . ft 1~·1f\\,.,/. 1 . ' (5-)) {.\ i\ . \\ ·.\ . ·. I A Ll\/1 ' . {\\~\\-' · . · V . ~ . I - L} · ·· \)} V- I ....... .-"""' ~ ,. ... __ ' / \,\~ . >----"?I ,/ Ju . ·•. ' \ . ' ' , ·"". ,. \ j I ©@~@~W@~ February 24, 2004 Vol. 17 Issue 2 news Iraqi Labor Unions:Ao UntappedForce For Change !By:Jon Reingoid! Hassan J'uma is an impressive negotiator. As head of the 10,000 member Southern Oil Confederation of Free Trade Unions invited the Iraqi Federation of Workers' Trade Unions Company Union in Iraq, last December he successfully challenged the hiring and wage to a conference in Jordan, 'to discuss ways and means to help and support Iraqi trade policies of Al Khorafi, the Kuwaiti subcontractor for San Francisco based construction unionists build new, transparent and democratic unions.• Presidents of the Iraqi Teacher giant Bechtel and Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root. The Southern Oil and Journalist Unions, as well as a representative from the Syndicate Union of Kurdistan Company Union first flexed its muscles against Al Khorali in October, when workers from Workers, were also in attendance. the union's Bergeseeva oil refinery in Basra launched a two-day wildcat strike. They liter This fall, in Basra alone, workers mounted three strikes against occupation ally dragged out the majority Pakistani and Indian workforce Al Khorali had imported, authorities, demanding fuel, livable wages and clean water, according to Gene Bruskin of demanding the company hire Iraqi workers to replace them. U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW). 'The right to organize is fundamental to democra Union members protested at Al Khorali's headquarters, and tribal leaders topped cy,• says Bruskin, a claim Bush would be hard pressed to refute.
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