Kurdish Textile workers are still on strike

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

The representative of the Workers of Kurdistan, reported on the 3 week long strike by the Kurdish Textile workers; he said that the workers show up to work but they simply refuse to work. READ MORE

According to a report by the regime-run news agency ILNA: "Mohammad Sadiq-Karimi stressed that the Kurdistan Textile Company which employs 407 workers belongs to the Bonyaadeh Mostaz'afeen va Jaanbaazaan (The Foundation of the Disinherited and the Disabled Veterans) and that the employment hierarchy in the Kurdistan Textile Company is not observed.

*Foundation of the Disinherited and the Disabled Veterans is an institution was set up in the aftermath of the revolution to manage the expropriated or unattended properties of those who fled the country According to official sources, it has assets of more than $20,000 million including farmland (about 100,000 hectares), land in urban areas (300 hectares), 850 companies and 50 agro-industrial complexes. Its main duty is to arrange the sale of its holdings to the public. The employed has also embezzled approximately $20,000 from the company's coop as well that he refuses to reimburse.