Urgent international solidarity to support the recent wave of workers strikes in cities across Iraq

Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI) is leading the strikes and struggles of workers in Iraq

Since its establishment the FWCUI has been organizing and mobilizing workers to defend their rights and maintain their unity in their struggles and uphold their ideals. FWCUI has been organizing in the middle of cross fire between the two poles of international terrorism led by the US and political Islam. The recent very successful conference of workers in Basra centred around the slogan of “the power of the working class is in its unity and organization” has provided a new vision for the workers struggle in Iraq as well as a model for organising and unity.

Since the Basra conference we have witnessed a marked increase in activities and the formation of a number of branches of FWCUI in many workplaces and factories. Such developments have attracted the attention of the authorities in the cities of Baghdad, Basra and Saharaban. Labour activists have been threatened by the authorities and prevented from joining FWCUI. Now a new wave of heroic strikes have swept industries like the Textile in the city of Kut, in which the workers were suppressed and shot at by the authorities, also the strike of Electricity Power Station in Nasriyah, the chemical, and plastic industry, and soft drink factory workers in Baghdad, and in Basra Electricity Power Station. It was only the FWCUI who has stood side by side with the striking workers and fought for their demands. The main demands of these workers are the right to strike and the right to organization. Increase in wages linked to inflation, ban on overtime, improved health and safety standards, payment of annual bonuses and in many occasions replacement of corrupt mangers and administration. FWCUI has become the only organization trusted by the workers to negotiate on their behalf and strengthen their position through it. More information about the workers strikes in detail could be found on our web page: www.uuiraq.org

These series of successful strikes in which the workers managed to impose their demands on the US appointed Interim Government and the bosses was a major step forward for workers in their daily struggle.

The workers in Iraq, more than ever, during these crucial times need your support. International political, moral and financial support will give our movement in Iraq continuity and motivation to fight for more rights. So please participate in strengthening the strikes of workers and their struggle by supporting the only true representative of the workers in Iraq Federation of Workers councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI).

Support the strikes of workers in Iraq!



-You can send solidarity messages to workers in these industries



-You can send condemnation (or protest) letters to Iraqi Authorities and US forces who are violating international convention and suppressing workers brutally.



-You can send your financial support to FWCUI



For more information please contact:

Aso Jabbar

Houzan Mahmoud

Akram Muhammad



E-mail: asojabbar@yahoo.com & houzan73@yahoo.co.uk &akram_nadir_1999@yahoo.com



Tel: Aso Jabbar (0041 78 882 55 89)

Tel: Houzan Mahmoud (00 44 79 56 88 3001)

Tel: Akram Muhammad (0017788987560)