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Brief news on workers protests across Iran

NCRI – In the western city of Kermanshah, municipal contract workers demonstrated outside the local government building on April 17 in anger at their unpaid New Year bonuses.

Employees of the Welfare Organization in the city of Qom, central Iran, gathered on Tuesday in protest at unpaid wages and working conditions.

In Abadan, southern Iran, workers and retired staff of the city’s Oil Company staged a protest outside the company’s office to object to a recent decision by the government to give housing units that had been promised to them to the Revolutionary Guards and security forces.

In Tabriz, north-western Iran, crowds gathered outside the Iran-Khodro Factory on Friday in protest at the delay in delivering vehicles they have paid for. Reports said their protest went unheeded by factory employees.

And in Gachsaran, south-eastern Iran, people protested outside the town’s main police station on Wednesday in anger a four-month delay in the payment of subsidies due to them.