According to the reports by Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers Organizations in Iran, three labor activists, Jalil Mohammadi, Alireza Asgari, and Reyhaneh Ansari received one year sentences on August 15. Alireza Asgari was sentenced to one year with flogging. Jalil Mohammadi and Reyhaneh Ansari each received one year sentences delayed for three years. They [...]
On August 13, about 600 workers with Metal Work Industries marched to Fath Freeway closing down the freeway to Tehran. The workers were demanding eight months of back pays and 11 months of unemployment insurance payments by the management. The workers were met with Special Guard Units ending their blockade after two hours. According to [...]
According to Changiz Ghasemi, the head of the Islamic Labor Councils Coordination Center in the Eastern Azerbaijan province, the management at many factories in the city of Tabriz and its provinces made the decision to close down the factories following the devastating earth quakes on August 11. The six point earth quake on the Richter [...]
The gas link explosion in Bandar Imam petrochemical complex has resulted in three more casualties in the recent days. The explosion in August 3, resulted in 21 injuries in which 11 were treated at the spot while Abdolnour Bani Saeed lost his life. Seyyed Morteza Mousavinejad lost his life on August 5 and three more, [...]
On August 11, protesting textile workers of Mazandaran Textiles marched and held a rally by Ghaemshahr governors’ offices and staged a sit-in closing down the main street in the city following inadequate responses from the governor. According to several of the workers talking with Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA), in the latest agreements between the [...]
by Abi Mehregan This article was first published in Tehran Bureau. Prior to the 1979 Revolution that installed the Islamic Republic, Iranian cafés and cabarets accommodated countless concerts of music, ranging from pop to jazz, blues to rock. People also performed music in the streets and back alleys, in the parks and public squares. However, [...]
On August 3, more than 500 preschool teachers and temporary instructors at vocational and technical colleges held a protest gathering by the parliamentary gates. The instructors holding their tenth such gatherings were protesting their expulsion from the ministry of education while the main demand of the preschool teachers was to become employees of the Ministry [...]
On August 6, more than 40 workers and employees at Larestan Communication Company took their protests to the governor’s offices. The workers were protesting changes in their contracts from full time to part time. The new contracts are now only for 15 days per month. The workers are being asked to work only for four [...]
Two strong explosions on August 3 at Bandar Imam Petrochemical Complex gas pipelines rocked the complex in Mahshahr. The consecutive explosions occurred around 3:30 p.m. resulting in evacuation of the workers and personnel at the complex. The fire resulting from the explosions was subsequently extinguished by 10 p.m. on that day. 15 firefighters were injured [...]
