Regarding the textile workers strike

The textile workers in kadhimiya had a strike for more than two weeks amid the persistency of the workers to have their demands met.

Hundreds of workers are working and using very old style and dangerous machines and tools that caused many casualties or injuries among the workers, which lead to long-term disability in most of the cases.

The ministry has intervened many times to put the workers under pressure by threatening them to be fired or relocated. The former minister issued a number of resolutions preventing the workers from forming their own unions in their workplaces and the return to the resolutions enacted by the former regime, however the workers did not want obey these rules.

To guarantee the success of the workers in achieving and meeting their demands we have to expand the protest movement to include the entire country, simply because our demands are the same as the ones of other factories and plants everywhere else.

More than two years have passed and the labor movement is growing however, it has not reached the level of being widespread movement. The labor movement in Iraq must have an inclusive agenda to adopt the workers aims and interests as a social class and proposes an alternative that does not specify one sector but actually every field.

The worker council and unions in Iraq who organizes workers from different sects and fields, attempts to organize the labor movement across the country and lead a widespread protest movement to stand against any enmity policy that could hurt the workers and eventually to bring the workers alternative to the current situation.

Join your union and revolve around your goals and your interests to downfall the attempts of privatization, layoffs and freedom limitations.


Long live labor will

Long live labor movement


Federation of worker council and union in Iraq

September 30 2005