December 21, 2007 archive

Given the US media blackout on the lives of ordinary Iraqis, we have to go elsewhere to get an idea of what life is like there.

McClatchy’s blog for their Iraqi reporters is one of the few places I know of where we still get something like unfiltered accounts of life in Iraq, for Iraqis.

Did you know that teachers recently went on strike?

December 18, 2007

Teachers’ Strike

For the first time, teachers feel that their union has remembered its staff and it starts working for them.

The teachers’ union called for a strike two weeks ago to be for one simple day put Sunday 16th of this recent month as a start demanding all teachers of the fifteen Iraqi provinces ( without the other three provinces in Kurdistan region in the north of Iraq) to take part in it. As this step is for the benefit of them , teachers of Basra, Anbar , Mosul , Baghdad and the other provinces in the south , west , east and centre of Iraq carried  it out hoping to get its result so soon.

The aim of this strike is to make those teachers of the south and centre of Iraq in a balance with those teachers in Kurdistan region by having the same salaries and privilege. Teachers in Kurdistan get double and they reach triple the salaries of those in all over the country. The question is why we have this double standard in dealing with teachers.

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