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The United Kingdom's TUC has launched an appeal for
unions and their members to pass on their used
mobile phones to the Iraqi trade union movement as
an act of 'second-hand solidarity'.
Unions representing workers in Iraq and Iraqi
Kurdistan face incredible challenges in defending
working people and rebuilding democracy. One of
their requests for solidarity from British trade
unionists is the provision of mobile phones -
crucial for any union organiser these days, but
especially in Iraq where travel can be dangerous and
landlines aren't sufficiently reliable or
widespread.
But mobile phones can be expensive to buy in Iraq
(and UK phone systems don't work there yet), so
buying new ones could eat up scarce union resources.
Instead, the Iraqi trade union movement has
identified a way of easily converting old European
mobile phones for use in Iraq. So now the TUC Iraq
Solidarity Committee has opened an appeal for used
mobile phones.
TUC General Councillor Sue Rogers, Chair of the TUC
Iraq Solidarity Committee, said: 'Rather than
throwing your old mobile phone out, put it to good
use rebuilding trade unionism in Iraq and Iraqi
Kurdistan. Their need is great, and this would be
such a small effort, but a big contribution.'
Old mobile phones (and their chargers, of course)
should be sent to the TUC Aid for Iraq appeal at
Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B
3LS.
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