Iraq Appeal




Women in Iraqi Kurdistan – demanding their rights at work and at home

"Essentially there are three classes of women here in Kurdistan. Women who are highly educated and who are in professional jobs; women who work in agriculture or factories who are paid low and work very hard and whose wages do not always go into thei...

19 May 2010
Take action to stop harassment of Iraqi oil workers!

After weeks of industrial action in the southern oil fields in Iraq, management are trying to undermine the Refinery Workers Union by sending four of its leaders to other workplaces. International pressure has prevented this sort of harassment in the...

13 April 2010
TUC slams Iraqi government at ILO

The TUC has launched a five point attack on the Iraqi government for its harassment of trade unions at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) committee on standards

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4 June 2008
TUC condemns attempt to kill Iraqi journalists' leader

The TUC has joined Iraqi unions and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in condemning the attempt to assassinate the President of the Iraqi Union of Journalists in Baghdad this morning (Saturday), and has called on the Iraqi Government ...

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23 February 2008
TUC Iraq Bulletin number 7

The seventh issue of the TUC's Iraq solidarity bulletin covers the recent teacher union pay victory, the involvement of Iraqi oil unions in the global union family, violence against Iraqi women, news of a transport union delegation to the UK, and mor...

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3 February 2008
TUC welcomes Iraqi Teachers' Union victory over pay

TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has written to Jasim Hussein Mohammed Al-Lami, President of the Iraqi Teachers' Union, for their recent victory in a pay dispute with the government.

21 January 2008



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