About The Announcement Made By the Ministry Of Labor Regarding the Granting Of 130,000 Dinar as an Employment Insurance (EI)

The nonstop struggle of UUI featured in demonstrations, sit-out campaigns and bringing the mass about the union demands represented by (descent jobs or EI), had a significant influence to enforce it in becoming a social demands even in the government offices that had no serious intention to get to the bottom of the society’s calamity.

These demands had become on the top of the list of the protesting movement, also it had been adopted by many political parties for their propaganda to get closer to the people. It has become an important part of the ministry of labor project and the government in general, after being very far from being considered in any government agenda that have proven throughout the past two years they are secluded from the people concerns and crisis as well.

The approval of the ministry of labor to grant EI comes along this way in response to this struggle and a premium success of this movement. The authority’s (US, Iraqi) who held negotiations with UUI leadership were denying the workers rights in obtaining EI. Their media saved no efforts to make this denial deep rooted in people beliefs and the international public opinion as well, however the rock-solid stand of UUI and it’s persistency of not slipping down toward the job market sales that have been put into service by many employment agencies and some corrupted officers in the ministry’s were proving day by day that the vision, the work of the UUI and the trust the mass have put in these kinds of works are the treasure of the UUI which will secure the continuity of the movement to end the most dangerous crisis in the society, that is the unemployment.

Ultimately there is only one voice of unemployed people who chant “NO TO FALSE PROMISES, YES TO DESCENT JOB OPPORTUNITIES!” For all unemployed people.

Steering Board of UUI

10.March 2005