Punishment
of the labour activists in Cotton Industry in
The administration
of the general company for cotton industry in
Abdulhakim demanded an
investigation about a contract of dye in a value of 101 000 USD with postponed delivery
and seemed to be not compatible with the ordered features. Despite that he was member
of the investigations committee and raised a compliant to the Ministry of
labour in this regard. But the administration accused them of exercising trade unions
activities without permission despite the international labour conventions recognise
the right of workers to organise unions without permission of the governmental authorities
and regards the intervention of government as violation of these conventions
.These decisions of this administration complies with the recent recommendation
of the ministry of labour which ordered full implementation of the old policies
and rules of Saddam regime which prevents the workers to establish their own
unions because they regards workers as
civil servants.
The new recommendation
of the ministry of labour threatened to punish everyone who is going to organise
or establish any labour organisation under any name .These recommendations are
totally compatible with old policies of
the former Iraqi regime.
FWCUI
November
2004