Interview with Hassan Juma’a Awad
Q: How was the Southern Oil Company Union organized?
A: Two weeks after the occupying forces entered Basra on the 9th of April, 2003, Iraqi activists in the oil industry met to reestablish the union. We organized the workers for two reasons. First, we had to deal with the administration put in place by the occupying forces. Second, we fear that the purpose of the occupation is to take control of the oil industry. Without organizing ourselves, we would (…)
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Iraq’s Oilworkers Will Defend the Country’s Oil
14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Fighting for Unions
7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Stewart Acuff
Some 57 million nonunion workers in the United States say they would form a union tomorrow if given the chance, according to new poll conducted in February by Peter D. Hart and Associates. For many of them, especially women and people of color, having a union is often the difference between living in or out of poverty. Yet the truth is that a sophisticated and systematic effort to deny workers their basic freedom of association is rampant in this country.
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AFL-CIO Condemns the Murder of Top Iraqi Trade Unionist
11 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
* statements by the AFL-CIO and USLAW (United States Labor Against War)
* AFL-CIO Condemns the Murder of Top Iraqi Trade Unionist January 05, 2005
The AFL-CIO today condemned the murder of Hadi Salih, the international secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), who was shot last night by assassins who broke into his Baghdad home.
AFL-CIO President Sweeney said, "Hadi was a courageous trade unionist fighting for Iraqi workers. He put aside all thoughts of his own personal (…) -
Workers Demand Union at Wal-Mart Supplier in China
16 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
10 commentsby HOWARD W. FRENCH
SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 15 - The scene on the street did not look like much, just the comings and goings of small groups of women from their factory dormitory, with a few lingering here and there in knots to discuss their situation.
Since Friday, though, work has stopped inside the Uniden factory’s walls here, where 12,000 workers, mostly young women from China’s poor interior provinces, make wireless phones, which the Japanese manufacturer supplies in large number to (…)