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Tag: labour protests
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Tehran subway workers repeat protest over unpaid wages
Workers at the Tehran subway service have staged another demonstration to protest delays in the payment of their wages. ILNA reports that on Tuesday…
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Protest by locals at construction site leaves one dead
Iranian media report that protests over jobs at a construction site in Behbahan became violent and left one protester dead. Protesters were complaining about…
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Protest my Semnan miners enters third day
The protest by 120 contract workers on the property of the Eastern Alborz Coal Mine has lasted three days as they demand more than…
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Boroujerd city workers fear layoffs just beginning
Close to one hundred municipal service and green space workers have been laid off in Boroujerd. ILNA reports that the workers have an average…
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Workers restoring heritage centre protest unpaid wages
One hundred and twenty workers from the Bam Citadel gathered in front of the Bam Citadel Cultural Heritage Centre to protest four months of…
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Sugar factory workers, pensioners protest lack of pay
170 workers and pensioners from the Haft Tapeh Sugar Factory in Khuzestan have been staging a sit-in on company property since Saturday July 4.…
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Contract workers continue strike at oil and gas projects
According to ILNA, labour activists report that on Thursday July 2, workers from a number of Asalouyeh oil and gas development projects have gone…
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Tragedy strikes labour protests at Kerman mining company
Workers’ representative Mohammadali Mirzai was killed in an accident with a coal trailer during labour protests in Zarand, Kerman, after police shot tear gas…
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Labour activist arrested in Saveh
Shapour Ehsanirad, an executive member of the Free Union of Iranian Workers, was arrested by Islamic Republic security forces on Saturday May 16. A…
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Tabas miners strike to demand unpaid wages
150 miners at Negin Mine in Tabas went on strike on Monday May 11 to protest that they are owed one and a half…
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Thousands of Turkish police disrupt May Day gathering
Police clashed with demonstrators trying to mark May Day in Istanbul and kept them from gathering in Taksim Square. The International Workers Day gathering…