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Workers’ wages not paid for six months

Workers’ wages not paid for six months

Source: The Green Voice of Freedom
March 9, 2010
An MP from the city of Arak has spoken of job losses at a plant of a company called Abangan in the city of Arak.
Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani who represents Arak in the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) told the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA), that ceding the company and the [...]

7 Labor Activists Arrested

7 Labor Activists Arrested

Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA)
March 7, 2010
7 labor activists have been arrested in Kurdistan in recent days.
In a series of reports posted on its website, the Coordination Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organization (CCHFWO) has released the names of 7 labor activists who have been arrested in recent days.
On February 27, [...]

Textile Workers Stage Protest outside Governor’s Office in Isfahan

Textile Workers Stage Protest outside Governor’s Office in Isfahan

Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists in Iran (RAHANA)
March 5, 2010
A group of Simin textile factory workers in Isfahan gathered outside the governor’s office on Wednesday to protest their unpaid wages.
RAHANA – In recent months, the number of worker protests has been on the rise across the country. The irrational economic policies of Ahmadinejad’s government [...]

Textile Workers Stage Protest outside Governor’s Office in Isfahan

Textile Workers Stage Protest outside Governor’s Office in Isfahan

Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA)
March 5, 2010
A group of Simin textile factory workers in Isfahan gathered outside the governor’s office on Wednesday to protest their unpaid wages.
RAHANA – In recent months, the number of worker protests have been on the rise across the country. The irrational economic policies of Ahmadinejad’s government [...]

Employees at Social Security Organization Gather over Unpaid Wages

Employees at Social Security Organization Gather over Unpaid Wages

Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA)
March 1, 2010
“We have warned the managing director that unless our backpay and benefits are paid by Wednesday, we will gather outside the ministry”, said one employee.
RAHANA – The employees at the Social Security Organization headquarters in Tehran gathered on behalf of all their colleagues across Iran, [...]

Mansour Oslanloo’s Wife Fears for His Life

Mansour Oslanloo’s Wife Fears for His Life

Mr. Osanloo is kept in the same ward as prisoners who are on medication, have mental and emotional problems, or are aggressive murder convicts.
By Mojtab Samienejad for RAHANA
March 2, 2010
Mansour Osanloo, the leader of the Greater Tehran Bus Drivers’ Union, was arrested on July 10, 2007 to serve his 5-year jail term in Evin Prison. [...]

Mansour Osanloo Attacked by Armed Inmate

Mansour Osanloo Attacked by Armed Inmate

Source: Persian2English
February 28, 2010

Political prisoner Mansour Osanloo has been repeatedly attacked by an inmate charged with murder.
According to reports sent to Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran, during the past few days, political prisoner Mansour Osanloo, President of the Executive Committee at Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (SWTSBC) has been [...]

Isfahan Steel Complex Moves to Curb Dissent

Isfahan Steel Complex Moves to Curb Dissent

Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA)
February 27, 2010
Factory management moves to curb dissent at the Isfahan Steel Complex after a flyer invited company’s contract workers to go on a hunger strike to protest wage and benefit cuts.
RAHANA – Last week, a flier calling on contract workers to go on a hunger strike [...]

Iran bus unionist released from solitary confinement

Iran bus unionist released from solitary confinement

Source: International Transport Workers’ Federation
February 19, 2010
A protest letter from the ITF and action by affiliates has been linked to the release of bus workers’ leader Mansour Osanloo from solitary confinement.
Earlier this week, the ITF learnt that Osanloo, president of the ITF-affiliated Tehran Bus Workers’ Union, had been moved into solitary confinement at Rajai Shar [...]

Union Leader Moved to Solitary in Rajaii-Shahr Prison

Union Leader Moved to Solitary in Rajaii-Shahr Prison

February 9, 2010
Source: Reporters and Human rights Activists in Iran (RAHANA)

RAHANA Prisoners’ Rights Unit – Today, Mansour Osanloo and Afshin Baymani were questioned and threatened by prison’s security and intelligence officials.
According to a report by HRDA, Kermani and Faraji who are respectively the head and the deputy head of prison’s intelligence office jointly questioned Osanloo [...]

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