The Workers of soft drinks in Baghdad started a strike, which halted all lines of production. The workers ask for their unpaid allowances and for a wage rise in proportion with the sharp increase in the prices especially in petrol prices, which makes the living condition of working families very difficult.
The representative of the Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions in Iraq stands in the forefront with striking workers and regards this strike a step forward to achieve the demands presented by the FWCUI to improve the living and working conditions of workers, and force the authority to raise wage rate and dispense workers allowances.
We call workers of all other sectors including industrial and social service sectors to support workers of soft drinks in their strike and to broaden the protest to impose their demands on the authority.
This brave stand by the workers of soft drinks in Baghdad prove for people in Iraq and worldwide that the Iraqi Working class is a social pole independent of the puppet authority and have no illusion in the propaganda of employers and the government about developing the industry and social services and so on. They have proved they are an independent front in resistance against the occupation and its puppet authority.
Broadening the struggle is the only guarantee to achieve the urgent demands of workers in Iraq.
Long live Worker’s struggle for reforms
Long live Workers’ willpower
Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions in Iraq
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