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Tag: Iranian labour protests
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Zamaneh’s Annual Labor Report: Struggles of Iranian Workers under the Pandemic
Over the past year, despite the coronavirus pandemic and police crackdown, workers took to the streets many times chanting slogans against exploitation, poverty, unemployment,…
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The Latest on Neda Naji, the Last 2019 Labor Day Detainee
Iranian activist, Neda Naji, who was arrested during the Labor Day rally on 1 May 2019 is still in prison. Neda has been sentenced…
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Iranian Authorities Respond to Labour Protests with Scores of Arrests
Fifty protesting workers of Ahwaz Steel National Industrial Group participating in protests on Monday June 11 were arrested by the authorities. Reportedly another group…
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Legal Proceedings Initiated against Labour Protesters in Arak, Iran
Workers of HEPCO, an Iranian heavy construction equipment manufacturer are reportedly facing charges brought against them by the judiciary as result of their protests.
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Spike in Labor Protests in Iran is Changing the Political Milieu
The sharp increase in the number of labor protests in the past few months suggests that in the near future, the Iranian labor movement…
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Iranian Miners’ Call for Justice Echoes in Social Media
In December of 2015 miners of Agh Dareh gold mines staged a number of protests which earned many miners imprisonment, flogging and hefty fines.…
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Iranian Workers, Pensioners Protest Months of Delayed Wages
Labour protests have become the order of the day in Tehran and other cities across the country with workers and pensioners demanding payment of…
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Protests lead to payment of steelworkers’ delayed pensions
After steelworker pensioners staged a sit-in in front of the labour ministry, Iran’s minister of labour announced the workers’ demands for their delayed pension…
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Worker protests at sugarcane plant roar back to life
About 700 workers of Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Factory resumed their protests on Saturday April 9 to demand their delayed wages and benefits and challenge…
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Sugarcane workers continue protests over pay, privatization
Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Workers gathered once again in protest on Sunday February 27 at the company office to demand improvement in their working conditions…
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Most jailed copper workers released after posting bail
Counsel for the detained Khatoonabad copper mine workers announced on Saturday February 13 that 23 of them have been released on bail. ILNA reports…
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Families of detained Kerman mine workers upset by lack of news
Twenty detained miners from the Khatoonabad Mine in Kerman, who were arrested last week for labour protests, remain in custody and have been transferred…