US Labor Against the War, July 23, 2010 Police raided and shut down electricity unions across Iraq in mid-July, carrying out an order from the Minister of Electricity that could have been lifted from Saddam Hussein’s rule book. The order prohibits "all trade union activities at the ministry and its departments and sites" and authorizes the police "to close all trade union offices and bases and to take control of unions' assets properties and documents, furniture and computers." The Iraqi trade union movement is calling on trade union members and labor solidarity activists everywhere to raise their voices in protest. ... Minister