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Tag: workers rights
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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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Women Embalmers Slam Court for Demeaning their Profession
The Islamic Council of the Workers of Tehran’s largest cemetery, Beheshte Zahra announced that it has filed a complaint against a recent court sentencing.…
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Iran Drops Flogging Sentence against Protesting Miners
The appellate court has reduced the sentences against miners of Bafgh Iron Ore Mines suspending their jail term for three years and changing the…
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Hundreds of Workers Protest in front of Iran Parliament
Hundreds of retired teachers, social workers, the workers of Telecommunication Company of Iran (Mokhaberat), as well as private sector contractors who had work for…
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Sweatshop Workers in Collapsed Building in Iran Left Without Jobs
The 17-story building that collapsed on 19 Jan in Tehran, Iran, was home to 560 small business units, many of them repairing workshops and…
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Azimzadeh a labour activist who was just released is summoned back to court
Labour activist Jafar Azimzadeh whose hunger strike has made headlines is summoned back to court only three days after being released from the hospital…