The Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union of Australia comments here on reports of the IFTU-organised strike by hotel workers in two of Baghdad's top hotels:
Vital new union movement created
This strike is a reflection of the vital revival of independent trade unionism in Iraq since the fall of the Saddam regime.
Rebuilding free, democratic and independent trade unions has not been easy because worker activists are regularly killed, kidnapped and harassed by all sides in the Iraq war.
Posted at February 25, 2005 06:11 PM