NCRI – On Saturday morning, more than 1,300 Pars paper mill factory workers walked out and staged a sit-in outside the management office in the southern city of Shoosh. They were protesting to three months of their unpaid salaries and chanted slogans against the factory's management.
Mullahs' regime hand picked management in the factory cut out the power lines to the factory's facility which also houses the families of the striking workers. Considering the scorching heat of Khuzestan Province in the summer, the management tried to pressure the families to make the workers end their walkout.
Separately, on Saturday, the angry workers at Haft-Tapeh Sugar Cane Factory continued their strike by holding a demonstration outside the factory's management office in Shoosh.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Special Units moved in to prevent the workers from marching in the streets. Units of the IRGC were dispatched late last week to suppress the worker protests in Haft-Tapeh.
The mullahs' regime in its faltering state in fear of increasing popular uprisings by workers, students, women and youths has turned to more suppressive tactics.
The Iranian Resistance calls on labor organizations and unions and the International Labor Organization (ILO) in particular to condemn the anti-labor policies of the clerical regime and suppression of the workers in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 23, 2008
