Weeks after taking office, acting Electricity Minister Hussain al-Shahristani over the weekend ordered all union organizing be banned from ministry facilities, and rounded up documents and computers in Basra.
The move has been condemned by Iraqi unions and American and international labor groups as carrying on Saddam Hussein's legal oppression of Iraqi workers' rights.
Shahristani, who also holds the office of oil minister where he has fought oil-field workers in like fashion, issued his d...
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