Campaign for Labor Rights in Iraq
International
Labor Rights Campaign delegation to Geneva on March 15, 2004
In the aftermath of the war on Iraq, the ILC was contacted by a representative coalition
of Iraqi unionists and political dissidents, most of them living in
exile in Europe or in the rest of the Arab world, with a request that
the ILC help them undertake a campaign for labor rights in Iraq.
The ILC agreed to work on this campaign and to summon the international
labor movement -- particularly the U.S. labor movement -- to work on
this effort.
In the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, with the U.S. Army now
becoming an army of occupation to protect the corporate interests of
Bush's anti-union cronies (Bechtel, SSA, MCI, Hailliburton, etc.) who've
received the big contracts to "rebuild Iraq," organizing a
concerted campaign to promote labor rights in Iraq, we believe, must be
a top priority for all unions and labor activists fighting for peace and
social justice the world over.
Working people in Iraq will need independent unions and all other rights
codified in the ILO conventions in the weeks and months to come.
Independent unions and full labor rights are the backbone of any society
that claims to be democratic.
Campaign Updates
Statement
by Falah Alwan to preparatory meeting in Geneva (March 15, 2004)
Update #14
1)
INTERNATIONAL APPEAL: Withdraw All Foreign Troops from Iraq! Peace and
Sovereignty for Iraq!
2)
APPEAL: Support the Complaint to the ILO Committee on Trade Union
Freedoms Lodged by the Federation of Workers' Councils and Unions in
Iraq (FWCUI) and the Union of the Unemployed in Iraq (UUI)
Update #13
1)
Pamphlet Distribued Throughout Iraq by the Federation of Workers
Councils and Trade Unions of Iraq (FWCUI)
2)
The Newspaper of the Union of Unemployed of Iraq (UUI) Publishes Its
Platform of Demands
Update #12
1)
Iraqi
Labor Rights: Urgent Support for "Dear Colleague" Letter is
Needed!
2)
HELP IRAQI
WORKERS GET THEIR JOBS BACK!
Update #11
Report
on the Delegation to the ILO Office in Geneva (March 15, 2004)
Update
#10
1)
Presentation
2)
Letter from Luc Deley (on behalf of the Swiss Organizing Committee of
the International Campaign Against the Occupation for the Labor Rights
in Iraq) to ILO Director-General Juan Somavia Requesting That He Receive
a Delegation from the International Campaign on March 15, 2004, in
Geneva
3)
Declaration of the International Campaign Against the Occupation and
For Labor Rights in Iraq
International Campaign
Against the Occupation and For Labor Rights in Iraq
Declaration of the
International Campaign Against the Occupation & for Labor Rights in
Iraq:
SUPPORT OUR
DELEGATION TO THE ILO OFFICE IN GENEVA!
Update
#9
1) Letter from OWC
Co-Coordinators
2) "An Anti-Labor Line in the Sand" -- by David Bacon (LA
Times Op-Ed article, Nov. 9)
3) "Why a Campaign for Labor Rights in Iraq?" -- Fact Sheet
Produced by USLAW
4) The Occupation and Labor Rights in Iraq Petition to the Congress and
Leaders of the Labor Movement -- Petition Launched by USLAW
5) Model Resolution on the Occupation and Labor Rights in Iraq
Update
#8
1) Now For Industrial
Shock and Awe
2) In Iraq, Labor Protest is a Crime
– by David Bacon
3) International Labor Network Condemns Arrest of Iraqi Labor Leaders
4) Privatizing Iraq – by Line Thomsen, Baghdad Bulletin
5) US “corporate invasion” brings no respite from war – by Justin
Huggler and Seb Walker in Baghdad
Update
#7
1) Labor Activists
Discuss Future of Iraq Labor Movement, by Tom Price (reprinted, with
permission, from the July-August 2003 issue of The Dispatcher,
the newspaper of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union /ILWU)
2) Iraq's Long, Bloody History -- by Tom Price (reprinted from the
July-August 2003 issue of The Dispatcher)
3) Resolution in "Opposition to the U.S. Occupation of Iraq"
adopted by the 32nd International Convention of the ILWU in San
Francisco, California, on April 28-May 2, 2003. The resolution was
submitted to the ILWU International Convention by ILWU Local 10.
Update
#6
1) Interview with USLAW National Organizer Amy Newell on the
International Campaign for Labor Rights in Iraq (excerpts from
interview published in France by Informations Ouvrieres/Labor
News, the weekly publication of the French Workers Party)
2) Urgent Fund Appeal for International Campaign for Labor
Rights in Iraq
Update
#5
1) Presentation -- by Alan Benjamin, Co-coordinator, OWC
Continuations Committee
2) A New Solidarity Front in Iraq (article reprinted from The
Nation magazine's website on International Campaign for Labor
Rights in Iraq)
3) Iraqi Antiwar Activist Subhi Toma Report to June 14th Meeting
in Geneva
4) Privatization in Disguise -- article by Naomi Klein,
reprinted from The Nation magazine (April 29, 2003)
Update
#4
1) Presentation on Dossier of Campaign for Labor Rights in Iraq
-- by Alan Benjamin, OWC Co-coordinator and Representative from
the San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO) to International
Conference in Defense of ILO Conventions and Trade Union
Independence, Geneva, June 15, 2003
2) Appeal for International Campaign for Labor Rights in Iraq
launched in Geneva on June 14-15, 2003
3) International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conference, 91st
Session, Geneva, Switzerland: "ILO Workers' Group Statement
on Iraq"
Update
#3
1)Introduction
2) COUPON TO SUPPORT $5,000 FUND FOR IRAQ LABOR RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
3) The Corporate Invasion of Iraq:
Profile of U.S. Corporations Awarded Contracts in U.S./British-Occupied
Iraq
Update #2
1) Why You Should Support the International
Campaign for Labor Rights in Iraq
2) Fund Appeal for Campaign from Walter Johnson,
Secretary-Treasurer, San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO)
3) Fund-Pledge Coupon
4) Letter to International Liaison Committee from a Unionist in
Baghdad (reprinted from ILC Newsletter No. 29 - June 2nd, 2003)
Update
#1
1) Introduction by OWC Continuations Committee co-coordinators:
Support the International Campaign for Labor Rights in Iraq!
2) Interview with Gene Bruskin, co-convenor of US Labor Against War (May
15, 2003)
3) Invitation to ILC Meeting in Geneva in Defense of ILO
Conventions (June 15, 2003)
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