[Seattle-editorial] FP: Labor Rights in Iraq

[Jeremy G Kahn]

I like it. Yes.

Jason Reep wrote:

> thumbs up
>
> jonathan lawson wrote:
>
>> subtitle: UNCLE SAM'S UNIONBUSTING WORLDWIDE
>> title: In Iraq, Labor Protest Remains Illegal
>>
>> Despite promises of democratization, US occupation policies in Iraq 
>> have turned a deaf ear to the needs of Iraqi workers, who suffer the 
>> same restrictions on organizing and workplace democracy as under the 
>> Saddam Hussein regime, under worsened economic conditions. As under 
>> the previous regime, the US-led Coalition Provision Authority has 
>> banned labor unions and organized protests, two rights enshrined in 
>> the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
>>
>> <p>Approximately seventy percent of the Iraqi workforce is 
>> unemployed. Most who have found jobs working on reconstruction 
>> projects are being paid an "emergency" wage, dictated by the US-led 
>> Coalition Provisional Authority, of $60 a month.  None of the $87 
>> billion recently appropriated by Congress for Iraqi "reconstruction" 
>> is destined to help impoverished Iraqi workers or the unemployed. 
>> Instead, the money will prepare the way for the transformation of the 
>> Iraqi economy, and the privatization of the state enterprises at its 
>> heart. The beneficiaries are US conglomerates and contractors such as 
>> the notoriously anti-union, Seattle-based firm <a 
>> href="http://www.workersdemocracy.org/SSA.html">Stevedoring Services 
>> of America</a>.
>>
>> <p><b><a 
>> href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=4568">Read 
>> the full story here.</b></a>
>>
>> <p><a href="http://www.owcinfo.org/campaign/Iraq/Index.html">Campaign 
>> for Labor Rights in Iraq</a> | <a 
>> href="http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org">US Labor Against War</a>
>>
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