[news] Iraq's Workers Strike to Keep Their Oil

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The Bush administration has no love for unions anywhere, but in Iraq it has a special reason for hating them. They are the main opposition to the occupation's economic agenda, and the biggest obstacle to that agenda's centerpiece - the privatization of Iraq's oil...This week, Iraqi anger over starvation incomes and oil ripoffs boiled over...[when] the biggest and strongest of the Iraqi unions, the **Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions**, launched a limited strike to underline its call for keeping oil in public hands...

  


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