Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions

Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions
ألاتحاد العام لنقابات العمال فى العراق
Merged into2005
Founded2003
HeadquartersBaghdad, Iraq
Location
Members
200,000 (2005)
Key people
  • Rasem Hussien Abdullah, president
  • Hadi Saleh, international secretary
  • Abdullah Muhsin, foreign representative (Britain)
AffiliationsIraqi Communist Party
WebsiteOfficial Website (2006 archive)

The Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) was the largest union federation in Iraq in the first half of the 2000s and, under Decree No. 16 in January 2004, the only one recognized by the Iraqi government.[1][2][3][4] This, along with the organization's alliance with Ayad Allawi's transitional government, many other labor organizations distrusted and criticized the IFTU.[5] In 2005, IFTU claimed 12 national unions and over 200,000 members, though it merged with three other union federations to form the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (also known as the Iraqi Workers' Federation) in 2006.[6][7][8][9][10]

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