Iraqi oil workers end strike
After one day they received higher pay. I hope it was a test run. Pay before the strike averaged $200 US/month. I have requests in to the Iraq Freedom Congress and US Labor Against the War for further comment.
ALARAB ONLINE
From Reutershttp://english.alarabonline.org/display.asp?fname=...Striking oil workers in southern Iraq on Wednesday ended action that closed the main pipeline supplying Baghdad with refined oil products a day after they had won higher pay, a union leader said.
"We received a document from the ministry of oil. It is a document to increase our salaries and to pay us (a) share in seasonal profits," Hassan al-Asadi said.
Asadi is the head of a workers' syndicate representing over 700 employees from the stated-owned General Company for Oil Lines and Pipes in the southern cities of Basra and Nassiriya.
Tuesday's action did not have any impact on oil exports, oil ministry and union officials had said.
Asadi said the oil minister had agreed to meet with a union delegation in the next 48 hours.
But he warned that the workers would go back on strike on Sunday if remaining grievances about management practices were not resolved
.Note: This was planned for some time. We didn't even get a chance to mobilize support! Next time...?
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2438.shtml
Labor and peace activists should unite in support of the courageous Iraq southern oil workers strike E-mail thisPrint this Kathlyn Stone, Electronic Iraq, 23 July 2006
ELECTRONICIRAQ.NET WHATS NEW?
An organization little known outside of Iraq has presented an opportunity to galvanize labor, peace and human rights activists here and abroad in a major show of solidarity with the people living in the U.S. occupied country.
The Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC) is mobilizing workers in Iraq to strike. The Oil Workers Union - by far the country's largest and most influential - has voted to strike and numerous other unions and womens' and human rights organizations have agreed to support the strike. Talk of the strike has gained the attention of Prime Minister Noori Almaliki who has asked to meet with union leaders. With widespread international support the workers' demands for basic humanitarian needs and a democratic sovereign nation can be achieved.
The IFC has become known as "the last hope" to bring about unity among the Iraqi people and an end to the violence. One of its slogans is "No Sunnis, No Shiites, Ours is Human Unity." It is the only grassroots group working to create a unified, democratic, secular and progressive Iraq.
ALARAB ONLINE
From Reutershttp://english.alarabonline.org/display.asp?fname=...Striking oil workers in southern Iraq on Wednesday ended action that closed the main pipeline supplying Baghdad with refined oil products a day after they had won higher pay, a union leader said.
"We received a document from the ministry of oil. It is a document to increase our salaries and to pay us (a) share in seasonal profits," Hassan al-Asadi said.
Asadi is the head of a workers' syndicate representing over 700 employees from the stated-owned General Company for Oil Lines and Pipes in the southern cities of Basra and Nassiriya.
Tuesday's action did not have any impact on oil exports, oil ministry and union officials had said.
Asadi said the oil minister had agreed to meet with a union delegation in the next 48 hours.
But he warned that the workers would go back on strike on Sunday if remaining grievances about management practices were not resolved
.Note: This was planned for some time. We didn't even get a chance to mobilize support! Next time...?
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2438.shtml
Labor and peace activists should unite in support of the courageous Iraq southern oil workers strike E-mail thisPrint this Kathlyn Stone, Electronic Iraq, 23 July 2006
ELECTRONICIRAQ.NET WHATS NEW?
An organization little known outside of Iraq has presented an opportunity to galvanize labor, peace and human rights activists here and abroad in a major show of solidarity with the people living in the U.S. occupied country.
The Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC) is mobilizing workers in Iraq to strike. The Oil Workers Union - by far the country's largest and most influential - has voted to strike and numerous other unions and womens' and human rights organizations have agreed to support the strike. Talk of the strike has gained the attention of Prime Minister Noori Almaliki who has asked to meet with union leaders. With widespread international support the workers' demands for basic humanitarian needs and a democratic sovereign nation can be achieved.
The IFC has become known as "the last hope" to bring about unity among the Iraqi people and an end to the violence. One of its slogans is "No Sunnis, No Shiites, Ours is Human Unity." It is the only grassroots group working to create a unified, democratic, secular and progressive Iraq.
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