Meeting with Vice-President of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU)
Tuesday 18th May from 2.30-4pm, House of Commons Committee Room 18
A briefing meeting has been organised by Mr. Harry Barnes MP on Tuesday 18th May, from 2.30-4pm, in committee Room 18, to hear first-hand from Mr. Hadi Ali, the Vice-President of the IFTU, the new and independent trade union movement that has emerged since the fall of Saddam Hussein and replaces his old discredited 'yellow' unions.
Mr Ali will brief the meeting on the current political situation: the wave of violence, the role of the United Nations after the handover on 30th June and the progress being made by trade unions in helping to build civil society in Iraq.
The foreign representative of the IFTU in Lndon, Abdullah Muhsin will also be present. Abdullah has recently returned from Iraq where he accompained a delegation of British trade unionists.
There will an opportunity for questions and discussion.
Mr Ali was interviewed on the Politics Show on Sunday and argued that trade unions in Iraq are helping to rebuild civil society from below, a point that was echoed in a debate on Radio 4's Today programme on Monday morning.
posted by abdullah 18 May 2004
Posted at May 18, 2004 07:32 PM