Basra Association of University Staff and lectures organized a general strike action on June 10 2007.
Staff at all departments supported the strike in protest of the exclusion of the University staff from the university employment Act of 1976.
The head of the Association at Basra University brother Maithem Kazem said that unversity staff are deprived of of academic and it training as a result of a policy exclusion and marginalization. This important segment of society suffered terribly under the former regime of Saddam and their situation however have not improved after the fall of that regime.
The Association conducted this strike to demand that university staff should be included in the university employment Act of 1976.
Posted at June 11, 2007 12:42 PM