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Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 14, 2010 Iranian blogger Arman has some theories about what it would look like if miners had been trapped underground in the Islamic republic: In Iran, the area would have quickly turned into a security zone, police forces would surround the area, and the news [that miners have [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 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 [...]
Source: Human Rights House of Iran (RAHANA) October 5, 2010 Behnam Ebrahimzadeh was detained on June 12th and has been in pain for a long time since his legs and ribs were injured after he was beaten during the arrest. According to the Committee to Free the Political Prisoners,, in a visit with his family [...]
Source: Iranian Labor August 18, 2010 The massive crackdown on the independent labor activists continues in Iran. Several leaders and activists in the union movement remain in jails while others have been subject to summons and terminations from their jobs. A sketch of the repression of the independent union activism in today’s Iran follows. Mansour [...]
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 [...]
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 charged with “counter [...]
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 [...]
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 higher, even [...]
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 starting in [...]
