Iraq's Workers Strike to Keep Their Oil
June 24, 2007 10:43 AM   Subscribe

union filter The Bush administration has no love for unions anywhere, but in Iraq it has a special reason for hating them. They are the main opposition to the occupation's economic agenda, and the biggest obstacle to that agenda's centerpiece - the privatization of Iraq's oil. At the same time, unions have become the only force in Iraq trying to maintain at least a survival living standard for the millions of Iraqis who still have to go to work every day, in the middle of the war.
posted by Postroad (7 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a lazy post on a hobby horse topic. also a single link weeks old newsfilter post. -- jessamyn



 
Heh, this is from the same site that said Karl Rove was indicted.
posted by delmoi at 11:11 AM on June 24, 2007


It must really piss off the ruling class that they can't kill American workers for the crime of demanding better and more.
posted by Pope Guilty at 11:11 AM on June 24, 2007


They're just waiting for America to be more like the other parts of the world they own, then you'll see some killifying.
posted by Artw at 11:20 AM on June 24, 2007


Meh, it looks like the strike is already over. Not that I don't love single-link two-week-old newsfilter or anything.
posted by dhammond at 11:58 AM on June 24, 2007


dhammond - see, don't say that we don't ever have stories about things going well in Iraq!

(I wonder how much control over Iraqs oil their "tactical victory" buys the Iraqis... I'm guessing none at all)
posted by Artw at 12:01 PM on June 24, 2007


Stop The Iraq Oil Law
posted by homunculus at 12:09 PM on June 24, 2007


Good link, littleman.
posted by DenOfSizer at 1:38 PM on June 24, 2007


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