{"id":418,"date":"2007-06-07T07:51:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T11:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2007\/06\/07\/freedom-on-the-march-iraqi-troops-th"},"modified":"2007-06-08T10:55:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T14:55:28","slug":"freedom-on-the-march-iraqi-troops-threaten-striking-oil-workers-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2007\/06\/07\/freedom-on-the-march-iraqi-troops-threaten-striking-oil-workers-wit\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom on the March: Iraqi Troops Threaten Striking Oil Workers with Arrest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet relays an article by Ben Landon of United Press International, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/waroniraq\/53379\/\">Iraqi Troops Face Off Against Striking Oil Workers<\/a>. The arrest warrants accuse the strikers of &#8220;sabotaging the economy&#8221;. Its hard to tell whcih labor demands are causing what reaction from the government, but:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The demands include union entry to negotiations over the oil law they fear will allow foreign oil companies too much access to Iraq&#8217;s oil, as well as a variety of improved working conditions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>refering to a law before the Iraqi parliament governing the long term [~30 year] &#8220;production sharing agreements.&#8221;\u00a0 In drafts to date the law would grant the lion&#8217;s share of the profits to foreign [outside of Iraq] oil companies. Labor intervention in these agreements is certain to meet with disfavor in the &#8220;foreign investment Community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet relays an article by Ben Landon of United Press International, Iraqi Troops Face Off Against Striking Oil Workers. The arrest warrants accuse the strikers of &#8220;sabotaging the economy&#8221;. Its hard to tell whcih labor demands are causing what reaction from the government, but: The demands include union entry to negotiations over the oil law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sand-oil-and-tears"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}