Iraqi union leader urges opposition to oil law

A proposed law regulating Iraq’s oil industry would foster U.S. “hegemony” over the world’s third largest oil reserves and Iraqi oil workers are determined to oppose it, an Iraqi union leader said on Monday.

Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary of the Southern Oil Company Union and the Iraqi Federation of Oil Workers’ Unions, was speaking in New York as part of a U.S. tour to press for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq.
Reuters