On their International Day.. Iraqi workers: Our rights are absent and our economy is fragile

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[size=52]On their International Day.. Iraqi workers: Our rights are absent and our economy is fragile[/size]

[size=45]Yesterday, Wednesday, Tahrir Square in the capital, Baghdad, witnessed a massive march by members of the Communist Party and union workers in Iraq, to ​​celebrate International Workers’ Day and to demand their legitimate rights, justice, and honor the efforts and sacrifices made by workers all over the world in general and in Iraq in particular, while demanding an end to the challenges that... It confronts them every year to ensure that they obtain their rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.[/size]
[size=45]While many members of the Communist Party and union workers demonstrated in Basra in front of the Shuaiba refinery and also in Diwaniyah Governorate to achieve one goal, which is justice among workers and the approval of the salary scale law in the country.[/size]
[size=45]the beginning[/size]
[size=45]For 140 years, Iraqi workers are still outside the circle of justice, and despite the appeals, protests and demonstrations held by workers every year in the country, their situation has not moved one bit towards achieving their goals.[/size]
[size=45]Nasser Al-Hamdani (43 years old) is one of those who will not be deterred from coming by the failure to fulfill demands over the previous years. All he said is that he will continue to demand, adding to his talk to (Al-Mada), with this story that dates back to the beginning of the first Labor Day in 1886, where Al-Hamdani says, “ At that time, workers organized a strike in the American city of Chicago, and then Toronto, in which approximately 400,000 workers participated in protest against working hours, as they demanded that they be reduced to only 8 hours.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hamdani adds, “The strike subsequently achieved a resounding success in paralyzing the economic movement in the city, but the police opened fire on the demonstrators, killing a number of them, while 11 people were killed as a result of a bomb thrown by an unknown person, while 7 policemen were killed, while many labor leaders were arrested to rule.” Four of them were sentenced to death, while the rest were sentenced to prison.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hamdani continues, “There was an event called the Pullman strike, which occurred due to the death of many workers at the hands of the American army, and as a result came the famous reconciliation between US President Grover Cleveland and the Labor Party, so that Labor Day was legislated six days later to be an international feast and holiday.”[/size]
[size=45]Workers and neglect[/size]
[size=45]Official and unofficial statistics agreed on the reality of the situation of workers in Iraq, as those covered by the working age in the country reached 12 million people, in addition to the presence of 4 million government employees, while the number of workers in the private sector recorded 6 million workers, so that the unemployed conclude these numbers with two million people. Unemployed.[/size]
[size=45]Salwan Adel, one of the workers in the private sector, suffers from the tyranny of his employers. He confirms that there is no justice in the distribution of tasks and salaries, in addition to being deprived of any rights that the Iraqi worker should have enjoyed, including regular leave, sick leave, and other rights.[/size]
[size=45]Adel explains, “The government must establish real oversight over institutions, whether governmental or private. We have no guarantee anywhere in Iraq, so I go out every year to protest this wrong regime.”[/size]
[size=45]Official sources confirmed that there are 6 million workers, of whom only 600,000 are insured workers and have the right to collect a retirement salary, which means that the percentage is only 10%, and that the remaining 90% have no future or guarantee.[/size]
[size=45]Competition for justice[/size]
[size=45]The injustice and lack of justice do not end there. According to Mr. Hashim Al-Aqili (50 years old), “There are no real and clear standards for the Iraqi worker. There is no job progression and no increase in salaries on the basis of high prices and high prices, in addition to the absence of the worker’s right in the event that he may be exposed to... To injury at work.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Aqili explains to Al-Mada that “most workers in countries have specific basics to guarantee their rights before institutions of all kinds.” Pointing out, “We are deprived of the most basic rights. Institutions in other countries have minimum salaries, but here vacations are random and unspecified to do justice to the Iraqi worker.”[/size]
[size=45]While he asserts, “This is not the whole problem, as our youth are competing with many foreign workers, until their numbers have reached about one million workers of various nationalities, as institutions prefer these people over the Iraqi citizen because the latter needs a salary sufficient for his life with laws that guarantee his right as a worker.”[/size]
[size=45]Congratulations and recognition[/size]
[size=45]Yesterday, Wednesday, a number of important figures in Iraq offered congratulations to Iraqi workers on the occasion of International Workers’ Day.[/size]
[size=45]The leader of the Shiite National Movement, Mr. Muqtada Al-Sadr, said in a blog post on the (x) platform, followed by (Al-Mada), “I am not exaggerating if I say that (May Day) is not a Labor Day, but rather a Labor Day, not because its idea is Western, nor because the worker does not deserve to be He has an annual holiday that he celebrates, but it does not make sense for the worker to have an annual holiday in our societies while he suffers woes.”[/size]
[size=45]For his part, the Prime Minister, Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, said in a blog post on the (x) platform, followed by (Al-Mada), that “the government has a commitment towards all Iraqi workers, women and men, to provide a work environment that preserves their dignity and guarantees their material and moral rights.” Pointing out that “workers represent a supreme value in our country, in which service, reconstruction and development projects have begun, and will not stop, with the help of the Almighty God.”[/size]
[size=45]In addition, the President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, stressed in a statement received by Al-Mada, “his continued support for workers’ rights and demands, and the necessity of an advanced modern law that guarantees a suitable working environment and environment and a better life for the working class and their families.”[/size]
[size=45]Good news, but[/size]
[size=45]The Iraqi government is trying to put its touches on the path of workers in Iraq to facilitate their professional lives, as it directed towards opening platforms to provide loans for small projects that serve the unemployed, while directing the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs to approve the Social Security Law that guarantees the rights of workers in the country, but the citizen did not see This law and its advantages up to this moment.[/size]
[size=45]The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, according to a statement received by (Al-Mada), said that “Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Ahmed Al-Asadi brings good news on the occasion of International Workers’ Day, increasing the salary of retired workers by 100 thousand dinars,” indicating that “the decision to increase the salary of retired workers will be voted on in Cabinet session next week.”[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that May 1 is an official holiday in 107 countries around the world, representing no less than 67 percent of the Earth’s population.[/size]
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