However, the handpicked management has refused to give in to the workers demands to date.
The State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police— attacked the workers beating up a number of demonstrators.
Some 500 workers of ARPCO walked out for the second time this summer over their unpaid salaries in the southwestern city of Ahwaz on August 24. The striking workers were cordoned by the SSF preventing the demonstration from spreading to other parts of the city.
"There was a forced vacation for 15 days imposed on the workers starting August 5," the state-run daily Kargozaran reported on the same day. However, when the workers reported back to work faced an extension of the "vacation" announced by the management.
ARPCO founded in 1966, posses over 30 years of experience in steel industry. At the time being, on 900,000 square meters land, the factory is producing the highest quality hot rolled coil, black and galvanized E.I.W. and pipeline (API 5L) tubes.
On July 20, the workers at the ARPCO walked out over their unpaid salaries and other benefits for the first time.