Privatizing Iraq's Oil

[redstar2000]

About that "new opening" for Iraqi trade unions...

Item: Baghdad, 8 July (AKI) - Eleven oil fields in southern Iraq, capable of boosting the country's production to three million barrels a day will soon be tendered to international investors, the Iraqi oil ministry announced Friday. "The ministry needs legislation which will allow it to fix international work criteria with companies that are involved in petroleum investments," said the ministry's spokesman, Asim Jihad.

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=...185260588&par=0 (http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Business&loid=8.0.185260588&par=0)

Item: (22/8/05) The new Iraqi government is attempting to control trade union activity by overturning an agreement that allowed them to operate without any undue interference or harassment from the state.

A new decree adopted by the Iraqi Council of Ministers stated that the government would be ‘taking control of all monies belonging to the trade unions to prevent them from dispensing any such monies.’

http://www.iraqitradeunions.org/archives/000363.html

Summary: http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archiv..._forgotten.html (http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2005/08/iraqs_forgotten.html)

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[Correa]

A clear facist move. Victory for the right wight! Bastards! :angry:

[Severian]

So are you admitting there is an opening of space for workers organization, in order to predict it will end? 'Cause in the past you've seemed to deny it exists. Heck, accused me of being pro-occupation for saying so.

[bolshevik butcher]

So here come the barag of anti-union and the privatizations eh? They did it abck home, no surprize there doing it here.