NCRI – Workers walked out on Saturday at Haft-Tapeh Sugar Cane factory in the southern city of Shoosh for the third time this Year.
The striking workers gathered outside the management office. They demanded that the officials honor their past agreement with the workers' representatives leading to the end of their strike the last time.
The protesting workers vowed that if their demands of receiving their unpaid salaries are not met soon, they would go on strike this time with a larger number of their fellow workers participating.
The worker's activists had said that in the near future the entire factory will be handed over to the new government management. The workers welcome the changes hoping their salaries and benefits would be paid in time.
On May 7, nearly 5,000 workers in various departments such as administrative, processing, agriculture and contract workers went on strike. The company’s refusal to pay its workers for the past two months has created very difficult living conditions for them considering the existence of soaring prices and high inflation rate in Iran.
In a bid to break up the strike, regime’s Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS) agents in the city of Shoosh and the company’s security officials resorted to intimidations and phone threats.
Reports indicated that Zibdari, a member of the MOIS and chief security officer at the company, who is directly involved in suppression of workers by making false allegations against them, had refused to appear at the company’s premises in fear of facing striking workers.
The workers had demanded their unpaid wages, an end to harassment of factory workers and labor activists by court summons, and dismissal of company’s director general mullah Yaqoub Shafiee, members of company’s board of directors and security chief.
