NCRI – Factory workers in the city of Dorood in Iran have staged their second mass protest in a month outside the city governor’s office in anger at six months of unpaid salaries.
Demonstrators also brought their children along to demand who was to blame for their families’ hunger.
The bankrupt Farsit factory that makes non-metal construction materials is the latest in a catalogue of businesses going bankrupt as the Iranian economy lurches into crisis.
On Monday, workers at the sugar factory in city of Zaqeh, in Lorestan province, gathered to protest the increasing lay-offs and possible closure.
Also in Lorestan province, in city of Pol-dokhtar, the brick production factory is being closed.
One laid-off worker said: “Since the beginning of the new year (March 20) only a handful of people have remained in the factory for basic maintenance and protection of the factory. All the workers have been expelled and there is no production.
“This has compounded the unemployment problem in the city such that most of the young people are unemployed. The city has been turned to a forgotten city because it does not have a production unit.
“In the city centers, many young educated and unemployed people are now washing cars or are street vendors.”
And in Asaluyeh, in the southern province of Busher, more than 3000 petrochemical contract workers who have not received their wages for the past four months have protested repeatedly outside the company’s main gate but have not been informed when they will be paid.”
