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  • Unpaid Workers Go On Strike In Iran

    10/08/2010 3:29:29 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 7 replies
    RFE/RL ^ | Oct. 8, 2010
    Workers at two plants in southern Iran went on strike this week to demand unpaid wages, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. An employee at Kaghaz Pars Haftapeh, a paper mill in southwestern Iran, told RFE/RL on October 7 on condition of anonymity that workers had not been paid for three months. "Our production remains at a normal level, we produce and distribute paper, but we don't receive our salaries," he said. "I don't know where the money is going." He added that "the plant's retired workers have not received their pensions since last year -- they live in absolute poverty." A...
  • Hundreds of "Tehran Collective Bus" employees arrested

    01/28/2006 9:35:05 AM PST · by Founding Father · 3 replies · 75+ views
    Hundreds of Tehran's Collective Bus drivers, technicians and workers have been arrested, since yesterday, following the issuance of a notice of strike. The protest action is to start from Saturday early morning and should affect most of the ten transit areas of the Greater Tehran. Many of the arrests took place, yesterday evening, at the homes of those suspected to be part of the tomorrow's strike and the Islamic judiciary is intending to trial many of them for conspiracy. False charges, such as, "Drug trafficking", "Having Prohibited Arms" or "Endangering the National Security" are expected to be use against the...