Dozens of North Iraq’s Oil Company in Kirkuk go on strike:

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Dozens of the state-owned North Iraq‘s Oil Company in Kirkuk have gone into strike on Saturday, raising several demands, including the transformation of casual daily workers into permanent workers in the Company, exporting oil from Kirkuk and other northern Iraq‘s oil fields to the Turkish Ceyhan Terminal on the Mediterranean. The demonstrators have also demanded what they described as “appointing the right person in the suitable position, the laying down of a development plan, the payment of vocational allocations, granting opportunities for some of their staff to be delegated abroad and the distribution of patches of land on the Company’s employees and workers.” The state-owned North Iraq‘s Oil Company is in charge of exporting crude oil from all provinces in northern Iraq, through the main pipeline passing through Turkey to its Ceyhan Terminal on the Mediterranean. Kirkuk is 250 kms to the northeast of Baghdad. PT / SKH 702