Workers protest in Tabas, Yazd and Abadan

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

TABAS

Workers from the Hospital service company of Tabas (Province of Khuzestan) who like the majority of workers across Iran have not received their wages [for 4 months], gathered to protest at “The Workers’ House” in Tabas. One of the workers said: “The working conditions for employed workers in contractors’ services in the township of Tabas is lamentable and most of the workers deal with serious problems, among them the non-receipt of wages for months on end.”

The employer of this contracting company blamed the delay in the payment of the workers wages on the dereliction and procrastination of the management of the hospital.

YAZD

More than 50 workers from the Southern Textile factory gathered in protest in front of the Governor’s office in Yazd. Based on reports from FARS, the regime-run news agency, workers demanded that their work conditions be investigated; they said that for years discrimination and mismanagement of the factory has left them in distress and defunct.

ABADAN

ILNA, the regime-run news agency reports that Aqayaar Hosseini, the director of the Workers House of the city of Abadan, announced that the workers of the FAKHR-ZAFAR factory who are paid by the contractors of the water and sewage bureau of the city of Abadan (Province of Khuzestan) have not received their wages for 6 months. Hosseini said that these workers all consistently appeared at work everyday for six months hoping to get paid, however their contracts have been temporarily suspended and they do not have the means to fight the management in receiving the back-pay either.