Iraqi oil workers union opposing oil sell-off
April 6th, 2007
Jeff3, a diarist at Daily Kos, has a post exploring the role of the raqi Federation of Oil Unions in opposing the law authorizing the sell-off of Iraqi oil to foreign corporations:
The members of union maintain the oil infrastructure, they know how it works, where it’s weaknesses are, where the strengths are. And, given the fact that just about every article I’ve read on the oil infrastructure in Iraq, indicates that the pipelines/terminals are jury-rigged/worn out, if you bring in new workers to fix the problems, you have to replace everything. So, if they decide to, say, creatively, ‘fix’ the system, who knows what might happen…
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