Iraqi Oil Workers' Union Founder: U.S.-Backed Oil Law Is "Robbery"

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Posted on July 9, 2007, Printed on July 9, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/56301/

As the Iraqi cabinet approves part of a controversial oil law, we speak with Faleh Abood Umara, the general secretary of the Federation of Oil Unions and a founding member of the oil workers union in Iraq. He calls on Iraqi lawmakers to reject the legislation. We also speak with Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, president of the Electrical Utility Workers Union and the first woman to head a national union in Iraq.