Iraqi Union News report.
Update from the Electricity and Energy Workers' Union of Iraq - IFTU
The workers' committee of the IFTU-affiliated Electricity and Energy Workers' Union at Baghdad's main Water Agency has initiated a campaign on behalf of workers at the Agency and other offices belonging or attached to it. This campaign includes:
1- providing for interest-free grants to be made available to workers.
2- Dealing with allegations of administrative and financial corruption.
3- Dealing with ensuring that the Agency pays the accumulated workers' holiday pay, which is owed and trying to assist in
4- Sending a memorandum to the relevant financial departments asking them to find an easier method to pay workers. Workers at the moment face both enormous security and administrative difficulties when they are required to collect their wages at banks.
5- Calling on the responsible government department to form an extraordinary committee to conduct an emergency investigation into attacks on workers who visit banks to receive their wages.
6- Providing workers with bicycles at reasonable rates to help with transportation.
7- The workers committee also won the re-instatement of 20 dismissed cleaning workers.
Posted at July 15, 2005 05:58 PM