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6 March, 2006
Oil workers in southern Iraq conducted a one-day strike 21 February as grievance to the Oil Ministry’s neglect for work conditions and the infrastructure of the company. The strike at the Oil Transport Company of Basra was brought by the General Union of Oil Employees (GUOE) in Basra.
The strike took place due to the deliberate and targeted neglect of the transport company by the ministry and government; for improvements in workers’ living conditions; and as a demand to pay money promised to workers by the Oil Ministry but never paid.