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Union Activists in Iran – Repression Continues

Union Activists in Iran – Repression Continues

Bookmark This!Close Bookmark and Share This Page Save to Browser Favorites / BookmarksAskbackflipblinklistBlogBookmarkBloglinesBlogMarksBlogsvineBuddyMarksBUMPzee!CiteULikeConnoteadel.icio.usDiggdiigoDotNetKicksDropJackdzoneFacebookFarkFavesFriendsitefolkd.comFurlGoogleJamespotJeqqKaboodlekirtsylinkaGoGoLinkedInMa.gnoliaMister WongMixxMySpaceNetvouzNewsvineoneviewOnlyWirePlugIMPropellerRedditSegnaloShoutwireSimpySlashdotSurphaceSphinnSpurlSquidooStumbleUponTechnoratiThisNextTwitterWebrideWindows LiveYahoo!Email This to a Friend  Link HTML:  Permalink:  If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed or Email Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More »Source: Iranian Labor
August 18, 2010 
The massive crackdown on the independent labor activists continues in Iran. [...]

Iranian Union Activist’s Jail Term Extended

Iranian Union Activist’s Jail Term Extended

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
August 13, 2010
The wife of the jailed head of the Tehran bus service union says another year has been added to his prison sentence, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
Mansur Osanlu is currently serving a five-year prison term given to him three years ago by a revolutionary court in [...]

Mansour Osanloo Tried at the Revolutionary Court in Karaj

Mansour Osanloo Tried at the Revolutionary Court in Karaj

Source: Human Rights House of Iran (RAHANA)

August 6, 2010
On Sunday, August 1st, 2010, Mansour Osanloo Head of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company was tried at the Revolutionary Court’s Branch #1 in the city of Karaj.
According to Human Rights and Democracy Activists (HRDAI), Osanloo was [...]

Explosion rocks petchem plant in south Iran, 5 killed

Explosion rocks petchem plant in south Iran, 5 killed

Source: Iranian regime-run English language daily, Tehran Times

August 4, 2010
ASSALOUYEH – A massive explosion at the Pardis Petrochemical Company plant in the southern port city of Assalouyeh caused a huge fire and killed five workers on Wednesday.
The incident occurred at about 2 p.m. local time.
A ruptured gas pipe is reported to have been [...]

Unemployment on the Rise

Unemployment on the Rise

Source: Iranian Labor

August 3, 2010
According to the statistics published by the Statistical Center of Iran and Iran Central Bank, the unemployment rate in Iran has started rising since Fall 2008 and has reached 11.9% by March 2010, the largest in the past six years. While the real rate of unemployment stands [...]

Qazvin Farnakh Textile Workers Stage Protests at the Factory Gates

Qazvin Farnakh Textile Workers Stage Protests at the Factory Gates

Source: Iranian Labor
July 27, 2010
On July 24, about 350 Farnakh Textile Workers staged a protest gathering across the factory gates in the Qazvin industrial city of Alborz. The workers were protesting not having received five months of back wages and two months of bonuses and benefits for the Iranian new year [...]

Rampant Wage Thefts Reaching Epidemic Levels in Iran

Rampant Wage Thefts Reaching Epidemic Levels in Iran

Source: Iranian Labor
July 26, 2010
Rampant Wage Thefts are not a new phenomena in Iran. The list of production facilities where workers have not received their wages in months goes on and on.
Naghshe Iran Carpet Weaving workers in Qazvin are reported to not have received wages and benefits for the past 18 months.
Khuzestan Pipe [...]

Iranian Labor Activist Released From Prison

Iranian Labor Activist Released From Prison

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
July 22, 2010
A spokesman for Tehran’s municipal bus-service union has been released from prison on bail, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
Said Torabian, who had been held at Rajaee Shahr prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, was released on July 20. He was detained by authorities on June 9.
His [...]

Statement of the Union of Free Workers of Iran regarding the Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Workers Syndicate

Statement of the Union of Free Workers of Iran regarding the Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Workers Syndicate

Mr. Seddigh Karimi and Mr. Fouad Kei-khosrohi, members of the Board of Directors of the Free Workers Union of Iran, hve been summoned to the First Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj.  Based on this summonds, both of them will appear at court today, Tuesday, July 20, 2010 (29 Tir [...]

Parliamentary Buildings Scene of Recent Workers Protests

Parliamentary Buildings Scene of Recent Workers Protests

Source: Iranian Labor
July 19, 2010
On July 18, the Iranian parliament was a scene of different workers protests. The first protest was by several hundred retired workers and pensioners who gathered by the parliamentary buildings in central Tehran to protest the recent measures taken by the ministry of welfare and social [...]

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