BAGHDAD
Teachers and schools in Iraq will start a general strike on Tuesday as anti-government protests entered a fourth day, a teachers’ union said Monday.
“It [strike] comes in solidarity with the demonstrators who call for bringing corrupt officials to accountability, achieving justice, providing basic services and creating job opportunities,” Abbas al-Sudani, the head of the Iraqi Teachers’ Union, said in a statement.
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