The administration of the general company for cotton industry in Baghdad has punished the labour activists Abdulhakim Rahim and Basim Kazim by transferring them from this company where they are working for long years because of their activities among the workers.
Abdulhakim demanded an investigation about a contract of dye in a value of 101 000 USD with postponed delivery and seemed to be not compatible with the ordered features. Despite that he was member of the investigations committee and raised a compliant to the Ministry of labour in this regard. But the administration accused them of exercising trade unions activities without permission despite the international labour conventions recognise the right of workers to organise unions without permission of the governmental authorities and regards the intervention of government as violation of these conventions .These decisions of this administration complies with the recent recommendation of the ministry of labour which ordered full implementation of the old policies and rules of Saddam regime which prevents the workers to establish their own unions because they regards workers as civil servants.
The new recommendation of the ministry of labour threatened to punish everyone who is going to organise or establish any labour organisation under any name .These recommendations are totally compatible with old policies of the former Iraqi regime.
FWCUI
November 2004
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This is just a proof that everything about cotton should be taken seriously. Why, it plays a major role in our daily lives.
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