Report: Oil workers delay strike until Monday

BASRA, Iraq, May. 9 (UPI) -- Iraq's government will respond to oil workers who have delayed a strike that could take 1.6 million barrels per day from the market.

In a news release Tuesday, the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions said it would stop work Thursday in opposition of the proposed hydrocarbons law, as well as other worker conditions...

The IFOU boasts more than 26,000 members, mostly in the southern region where most of Iraq's 2 million bpd are produced and all of the 1.6 million bpd are exported.

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