Textile workers strike in Kadhimya Factory

The textile workers in the general company of cotton industries in Baghdad have launched a strike demanding their pays and the increase of danger compensation. The workers have had many rounds of negotiation with the management without reaching a solution. The strike has begun in September 10 until the end of the month; however, the demands were not met.

This is not the first time the workers launch strike, the company has witnessed many organized strikes and protests some of them were against the corruption of the management and demanded their replacement, some of the demanding bonuses and so on. There was a rumor among the workers saying that the minister of industry will request the intervention of the American troops to settle the problem using force.

Some officials have called on the American troops to intervene in a recent incident to suppress a worker protest under the text of the factory was infiltrated by insurgents who intend to burn it.

As the worker want to operate the plant in full capacity and extend their production, the ministry and the management attempt to put barriers and decrease production. in order to privatize the company under pretext of inefficiency, which is the same policy the ministry of industry following in order to privatize the public sector.

Federation of worker councils and unions in Iraq

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