Shahraban Governor in
Baghdad threatened to arrest the labour activists who joined FWCUI
The governor of Sharaban issued an official order to all companies and factories in this neighbourhood to
prevent and try any labour activist who joins FWCUI. He stressed that the only
official and legal federation is IFTU and threatened to arrest those who joined
FWCUI.
It seems that this Governor neglects the
international labour conventions specially conventions Nr. 98 and 87 which
clarifies the right of workers to establish their unions and prevent the
government to interfere in this matter. Pressurising workers only to join one
union is an old tradition of Baath Regime which seems
that this Governor is also one partner of these fascist policies of Baath regime. FWCUI will raise an official claim against
this fascist policies of Governor of Shahrban and we
will stress that he must be tried and not freedom loving labour activists.
November
2004
FWCUI