AFL-CIO Pres. Richard Trumka  Tells al-Maliki: Respect Labor Rights in Iraq,  End Repression of Unions. For more information please click here: http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/

May Day Rally in Baghdad, Basra and Kirkuk

Charging that the Iraqi government is using the same laws that Saddam Hussein used to “attack workers and prevent trade union organization,” dozens of labor rights activists rallied outside the Iraqi Consulate in Dupont Circle at noon yesterday demanding an end to the “systematic abuse” of workers and unions in Iraq. “Hey Iraq it’s union time – organizing is not a crime!”.  For more information please click Here:

With shadowy political figures trying to hijack their union, a chronic lack of teaching resources and continued death threats, teachers in Iraq are under enormous strain, as a recent delegation to the UK told the TUC.
As Nasser al Hussain, executive member of the Iraqi Teachers Union (ITU) explains: ‘Key forces within the government are using a law inherited from Saddam’s era to try to control and split trade unions. For more information please click: Here

Campaign for Effective Iraqi Labour Laws Takes Shape

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With the support of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), trade unions in Iraq have come together to create a campaign and a website, calling for international solidarity and pressure on the government of Iraq to enact fair labour legislation. Seven years after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, workers in Iraq are still without legislative protection of their fundamental rights at work.

here:  Four key union leaders at the Southern Oil Company in Basra, Iraq are being transferred out of the worksite by management – a union-busting move to undermine their demands for decent working conditions. The TUC has written to the Iraqi Embassy in the UK below calling on the newly elected Iraqi Government to end this harassment, and finally put in place a fair and just national labour law. To show your support, sign the campaign appeal for a fair and just Iraqi labour law

Saddam Hussein-era laws continue to be used against Iraqi workers. Support workers’ push for fair and just labor laws say the Solidarity Centre and the Global Union ICEM. For more information please click here: http://www.solidaritycenter.org/Files/iraq_flyer_IraqiOilWorkers0410.pdf

The British Largest Public Service Union Supports the Iraqi national Labour Campaign. For more information please click here:

USLAW has backed the Iraqi National Labour Campaign International call for a fair and just labour law in Iraq. USLAW has posted on its main webpage, the campaign’s appeal and has called on its supporters to sign the appeal. To view this, please click here:

The British Trades Union Congress Endorse the Iraqi Labour Campaign.

The TUC has published today, the Iraqi National labour campaign appeal on its main webpage. The appeal urges trade unionists in the UK and else where to show solidarity with their fellow Iraqi workers by:

1-     Signing the appeal;

2-     Persuading their trade union organization to support the campaign;

3-     And by writing to the Iraqi authorities encouraging them to immediately enact an ILO complaint labour law. For more information please click here: