Reply #53: "A resolution opposing the occupation is expected to be presented at ...

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... the upcoming AFL-CIO convention."

Iraqi labor leaders welcomed across U.S.

June 23, 2005

by Susan Webb

Six Iraqi union leaders touring the U.S. this week called for an end to the U.S. occupation and expressed hope that American workers would support their efforts to protect Iraqi workers’ rights and defeat privatization. U.S. Labor Against the War sponsored the 17-day, 25-city tour by the representatives of three major labor organizations in Iraq.



Hassan Juma’a Awad, president of Iraq’s General Union of Oil Employees, at a June 16 meeting at Los Angeles Valley College hosted by AFT Local 1521.

The delegation met with AFL-CIO President John Sweeney June 14.

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The IFTU’s Rashed said the U.S. occupation has brought “the destruction of the Iraqi infrastructure, Iraqi institutions, civil service and the whole fabric of society.”

“The Iraqi people have all the resources, qualities, education, expertise to rebuild Iraq,” he said. “We will not accept the hegemony of a foreign power.”

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More at the link:
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/7267/1/275

Let us all ask the AFL-CIO to contribute to the effort to indict and prosecute Bush and the neoconsters.

Peace.


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