Kurdish oil workers strike
All 223 oil workers at Shiwashok oil company in Iraqi Kurdistan began an indefinite strike at 5am on Monday 1 August, which has stopped work at the entire field. The workers, who are residents of the area, are suffering from a lack of basic services like electricity and suitable paved roads to the workplace. They demand provision of electricity, building roads, and equal working conditions with colleagues from other nationalities. The workers also demand some money from the profit of oil production, which is a portion of the oil income to be distributed to the population in the areas which...