September 22 – More than 200 laid-off carpet factory workers staged a protest outside the governor’s office in the city of Boroujen, Chaharmahal Province, to demand eight months of unpaid wages.
Their employer is refusing to pay the salaries, despite reports the company is solvent and part-owned by the regime’s Revolutionary Guards.
The protesters waved banners and chanted ‘We are hungry’ before they were attacked with truncheons by plain clothes agents, leaving many injured.
September 22 – Around 150 retired steel and coal factory workers in the city of Kerman protested on Eghbal Street on September 23 to demand wages unpaid since the end of the Iranian month of Shahrivar.
September 22 – More than 1000 workers and employees of Zabol City municipality have also not been paid for three months.
An official in the province told the state-run ILNA news agency: “Three months have passed and workers and employees of Zabol municipality have not received their salaries and insurance. This city lacks industrial centers and the government has not financially supported the city’s municipality in the past year…”
September 22 – A worker in the province of Kurdistan reported the loss of 200 construction jobs after the residential projects in the city of Saqez were axed.
The worker told the ILNA news agency: “More than 200 construction workers lost their job after the contractors
ceased activity, and they are now wandering the city to find other work.”
September 22 – The head of the Labor House in the province of Mazandaran announced that 5,000 retired steel workers from coal mines of Savad Kuh had not received their pensions for more than 4 months.
