All workers engaged in oil, gas, and geothermal, fields, refineries and processing facilities. All workers engaged in distribution of the products.
Submitted on Sun, 06/25/2006 - 7:49am
PRESS RELEASE from Naftana - UK Support Committee for the General Unionof Oil Employees Iraq
OIL UNION BANK ACCOUNT FROZEN
IRAQI GOVERNMENT ATTACKS OPPONENTS OF OIL PRIVATISATION
We have just confirmed reports that the Iraqi regime has frozen all the bank accounts of the Iraqi oil workers' union, both abroad andwithin Iraq.Wave of anti-union activity by government The Iraqi regime's decision comes in the wake of a series of anti-union measures, including the disbanding of the council of the lawyers' union, freezing the writers' union accounts and the September 2005 decree making all trade union activity illegal.
