Iraqi Oil Union Leaders Visit San Francisco Bay Area
A Photodocumentary
By David Bacon
June 21, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA - 19-21JUNE05 - Hassan Juma'a Awad, president, and Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary, of the General Union of Oil Employees of Iraq, were greeted by trade unionists and other supporters throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Juma'a Awad and Abood Umara were part of an historic national tour by six Iraqi trade unionists organized by US Labor Against the War.
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David Bacon is a freelance writer and photographer who writes regularly on labor and immigration issues. His latest book is "The Children of NAFTA" (University of California Press, 2004).