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On U.S. tour, Iraqi unionists reject oil grab
Thursday, June 14, 2007 :Labor leaders call for end to occupation
SAN FRANCISCO To judge by most U.S. media, the daily slaughter of Iraqis and the ever-climbing death toll among U.S. occupation forces sum up reality in Iraq. We rarely hear that a powerful labor movement is defending workers rights, campaigning for an end to the U.S.-led occupation and for better daily living conditions for ordinary people, and upholding the Iraqi peoples right to keep control of their countrys great oil resources.
This month, people across the U.S. are getting a glimpse of that other reality, as they hear from two Iraqi trade union leaders, Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary of the Oil Workers Union, and Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, president of the Electrical Utility Workers Union and the first woman to head a national union in Iraq.
The two, from the southern port city of Basra, are touring under the auspices of U.S. Labor Against War, the American Friends Service Committee and United for Peace and Justice, appealing for stepped-up solidarity to end the occupation and to keep Iraqs oil fields from being privatized to benefit transnational oil corporations.
During their stay in the San Francisco Bay Area, the two received word of Iraqi oil workers victory in the strike they began June 4 for the right to participate in talks on the new oil law and for decent wages and working conditions.
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