TRADE UNIONS IN IRAQ

Early day motion 1602, tabled 16 July 2003 by Rob Marris (Labour). Signed by 50 members.

That this House welcomes the recent re-establishment of the Workers' Democratic Trade Union Movement as an independent trade union umbrella body in Iraq, supported by the ICFTU; and calls on the Government to provide promptly disinterested financial support to the WDTUM to assist it to help set up, and foster the growth of, independent trade unions in Iraq, of which eight have been formed since the fall of the Saddam Hussein's government as a vital pillar of civil society in Iraq.

Signatures by party: Labour 38, Liberal Democrat 6, DUP 2, Labour/Co-operative 2, Conservative 1, UUP 1.