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Tag : workers union

May 1, 2019

Security Forces Arrest Protesters in Front of Iran’s Parliament on Labor Day

A peaceful demonstration by people demanding workers’ rights in front of Iran’s Parliament in Tehran on International Workers’ Day, May 1, ...

February 26, 2019

Intelligence Ministry Denies Labor Activists Qoliyan and Bakhshi Medical Treatment

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October 31, 2018

15 HEPCO Workers in Iran Issued Suspended Prison, Lashing Sentences For Demanding Unpaid Wages

Fifteen staff members of the HEPCO manufacturing company in Markazi Province, Iran, have been issued suspended ...

February 22, 2017

Largest Trade Union Body Asks Iran’s Leader to End Persecution of Prominent Activist

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has written to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei calling for an end to ...

September 5, 2016

Labor Activists Put on Trial After Hundreds of Workers Protest Unpaid Wages

Labor activists Jafar Azimzadeh and Shapour Ehsani-Rad have been put on ...

July 6, 2016

Ailing Political Prisoner Temporarily Released and Promised Retrial Shortly After Judiciary’s Harsh Refusal

Imprisoned labor activist Jafar Azimzadeh was temporarily released on “extendable furlough” on June 30, 2016 ...

June 24, 2016

Labor Rights Activist in Critical Condition After 50-Day Hunger Strike

Prominent leftist scholar Noam Chomsky has called for Jafar Azimzadeh’s release Labor rights activist Jafar Azimzadeh is in ...

June 17, 2016

Iran’s Judiciary Evades Responsibility for Lashing Sentences against Striking Miners

After a month-long silence amid widespread condemnation of the decision by Iran’s Judiciary to intervene in a local labor dispute and punish 17 protesting mine workers with lashing ...

May 31, 2016

Iranian Gold Miners Lashed for Protesting Layoffs

Seventeen miners in northwestern Iran have been lashed on orders of the Judiciary after their employer sued them for protesting the firing of hundreds ...

May 12, 2016

Imprisoned Teacher on Hunger Strike Sent Home After Hospitalization

The imprisoned teachers’ union activist, Mahmoud Beheshti Langroudi, has been released from hospital and sent home after a 22-day ...

May 2, 2016

Imprisoned Teacher Begins Hunger Strike to Protest Years Behind Bars for Peaceful Union Activities

Mahmoud Beheshti Langroudi, a teacher and activist who was sentenced to five years in prison and an additional four-year suspended prison ...

April 26, 2016

Bus Drivers’ Union Leader Awaiting Sentencing for Peaceful Labor Activism

Ebrahim Maddadi, a labor activist and leading member of Tehran’s bus drivers’ union, is awaiting sentencing after standing trial on April 16, 2016. Arrested ...

September 15, 2015

Imprisoned Labor Activist Dies of Stroke after Being Denied Medical Care

Shahrokh Zamani, Labor activist Authorities Routinely Refuse Medical Treatment to Political Prisoners September 16, 2015—Labor activist Shahrokh ...

September 11, 2015

Without Effective Safety Laws or Unions, Workplace Deaths Increase in Iran

Without adequate laws protecting workers’ safety or independent labor groups able to organize and advocate effectively for workers’ rights, workplace deaths in Iran have risen ...

May 22, 2015

For Iranian workers…

This Campaign video highlights the plight of workers in Iran. Some 70% of Iranian workers live below the official poverty line, 90% of Iranian laborers have temporary employment contracts offering no job security, and 19,974 workers lost their lives in ...

January 14, 2009

Workers’ Rights

Iranian workers and teachers are denied many protections of basic workers rights, as defined and articulated under longstanding international labor standards. Iranian ...

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