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Iraq rail workers strike for basic rights
18 May 2007
The ITF is expressing its support for Iraqi railways workers who on Tuesday of this week began an indefinite strike to win a pay rise and the most basic rights.
The strike action, backed by the vast majority of rail workers, has paralysed the country’s main North/South rail corridor. It has been taken in order to achieve improvements in salaries and conditions, as well as improved safety, protection from attack and fundamental workers’ rights.
Mac Urata, Secretary of the ITF’s Inland Transport Section, commented: “It beggars belief that the dictatorial anti-union laws of the Saddam Hussein era are still in place. Legislation denying rail and other public services workers the right to strike and belong to a union must be removed immediately. The ITF fully supports this legitimate action.”
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