Iraqi trade unions

Solidarity with Iraqi unions

HARINGEY TRADES UNION COUNCIL Presents AN EVENING OF INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH THE NEWLY EMERGING TRADE UNIONS IN IRAQ details below Speakers Abdullah Mushin: Exiled under Saddam Hussein's regime, he has now returned to Iraq to help build the Iraqi Trade Union Federation. Alex Gordon: South West & South Wales RMT, who went on a Union delegation to Iraq. Jeff Engles: American Trade Unionist, ILWU. Ewa Jasiewicz: Solidarity activist who spent 6 months in Palestine and 8 months in Iraq where she worked with Trade Unions, families, Voices in the Wilderness, human rights groups and refugees...

Eyewitness: Iraq's new trade unions. The workers are organising

Ewa Jasiewicz spent eight months in Iraq, mainly in Baghdad and Basra, working for Occupation Watch. She worked with the trade union movement in Basra, especially the Southern Oil Company Union. From Basra she used to post regular reports at the anarchist website infoshop (www.infoshop.org), and via other web resources (for example, Voices in the Wilderness), about workers' struggles in Iraq. Clive Bradley talked to her. Ewa went to Iraq from Palestine, because while many activists from around the world were working to help the Palestinians, few were supporting Iraqis. It's an impressive...

Unions in Iraq

A new leaflet from the Australian Socialist Alliance gives summary information about trade unions in Iraq. Unlike the Socialist Alliance in England, the Australian Socialist Alliance has agreed to emphasise building solidarity with workers' organisations in Iraq. Much more detailed information about unions and workers' struggles in Basra can be found in Ewa Jasiewicz's report "The Invisible Fire", which you can download as pdf here . Trade union activity exploded in Iraq after the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. Many new unions have been formed but they face big obstacles from the US...

US raids Iraqi union office

From Eric Lee at Labourstart We have just received an urgent appeal from the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions which we feel needs to be passed on to the largest possible number of trade unionists in the next several days. On Saturday, dozens of US troops in ten armoured cars raided the IFTU temporary headquarters in Baghdad, smashing windows, seizing documents, and even tearing down posters and banners condemning terrorism. Eight IFTU leaders were arrested, but were released the following day, unharmed. No reason or explanation was given for the raid. The IFTU is calling on President Bush to...

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