Call for messages of support

 

PUK Attacks Striking Workers in Cement Factory – 27 July 06

 

This morning the PUK injured 13 at a factory in Tasloja in  Sulaimaniya  in Iraq.  The workers only crime was to be taking part in a picket of a Cement factory calling for an increase of wages.  This is a clear infringement of democratic rights and basic freedom of expression.

 

We the undersigned call on Trade Union Branches and human rights organisations to send messages to Jala Talabani who was selected as president of Iraq in April. condemning this action.

 

Messages of condemnation to:

Mr. Jalal Talabani

President

Republic of Iraq

Convention Centre (Qasr al-Ma’aridh)

Baghdad, Iraq

Salutation : Your Excellency

 

If you have a fax, please send appeals via the PUK offices abroad and

ask them to be forwarded to President Talabani:

 

-          PUK office in United Kingdom: fax: +44  20 7 840 0630

-           PUK office in United States: fax:+1 202 637 2723

-          PUK office in Germany: fax: +49 30 863 987 94 

-          PUK office in France: fax:+33 1 409 00282

-          PUK office in Italy: fax:+39 06 50 37120 (if someone answers ask for the fax line)

-          PUK office in the EU: fax:+31 703 895832 (if someone answers ask for the fax line)

-          PUK office in Sweden: fax: +46 8 917693  (if someone answers ask for the fax line)

 

COPIES TO: International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-d.jamal@ntlworld.com, TEL

: 07856032991

Dashty Jamal IFIR

David Broder Convener of Iraq Union Solidarity

Karen Johnson No Sweat

 

 

We the undersigned, strongly condemn the shooting of workers of Tasloja Cement Factory in the city of Suleimanyia in the Iraqi Kurdistan by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’s security and police forces on July 27, 2006.  Three workers were killed and sixteen more were injured in this incident. The workers were in strike asking for wage rise and that 300 workers previously sacked to be reinstated. We demand that the perpetrators of this crime to be prosecuted and that the PUK stops its oppression and recognizes the right of people to demonstrate and strike.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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