The head of the Abadan Refinery Union of Contract Workers has announced that three contracting companies at the international port of Mahshahr have failed to pay their workers for over three months. Siamak Melk told ILNA that the three companies have more than 30 workers each, and none has been paid in the […]
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Construction workers protest in Tehran
Four hundred construction workers staged a protest at a mosque in the Tehran Pars section of Tehran. ILNA reports that Mohammad Bagheri, a board member of the Association of Construction Workers of Tehran Province, said: “Four hundred construction workers gathered to protest the government’s failure to resolve their insurance needs and the lack of […]
Struggle Against ‘Dire’ Conditions for Iran Workers
On April 29, just ahead of International Workers’ Day, Iranian authorities summoned Behnam Ebrahimzadeh to discuss the terms of his temporary release from Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. Ebrahimzadeh, a labor activist and blogger who is almost three years into a five-year prison sentence, was given leave from the prison after many pleas to […]
Iranian workers mark May Day with protest
A group of workers gathered in front of Iranian parliament on the occasion of the International Worker’s Day to protest against their inadequate wages in the face of rising inflation. ILNA reports that the workers held a protest demanding a reconsideration of the minimum wage increase which was approved for this year. Meanwhile official […]
Court receives Iranian workers’ minimum wage complaint
The complaint by workers objecting to the minimum wage recently announced by the Ministry of Labour has been submitted to the Supreme Court of Administration. Workers have claimed that the minimum wage is supposed to rise in accordance with the inflation rate, as laid out in the Labour Ministry’s administrative provisions, but while the […]
Unpaid Lorestan workers demand action from governor
Workers at the Dorood Farsit Company in Lorestan Province staged a sit-in across from the governor’s office, demanding official action to address their demands. ILNA reports that the protesters said they were forced to take their issues to government officials after months of delayed wages and refusals by the company’s CEO and managers to […]
Detained workers supported by protesters
A group of labour activists and the families of detained workers gathered in front of the Justice Department in Sanandaj on Saturday April 6 to protest the undetermined state of their arrested peers and relatives. The Committee of Coordination of Support for Labour Organizations reports that the assistant prosecutor and interrogator failed to provide […]
Workers decry lack of reaction to protest
About 800 workers have entered their sixth day of protests in front of Iran’s presidential offices building on Sunday January 27.
Steel workers strike in Saveh
According to the Independent Iranian Workers’ over 1200 labourers and 250 senior engineers at the Safa steel works in Saveh, an industrial town south of Tehran, have gone on strike.
Workers speak out against continued wage delays
More than 500 workers at the Safa Pipe factory have begun their fourth round of protests against the delayed payment of wages and other grievances.