The automaker, second to Iran Khodro in the country, had been in financial trouble since last year.
The automaker, second to Iran Khodro in the country, had been in financial trouble since last year.
For a temporary bailout, the company bought an older model of a car called "Pride" from Siapa Company. However, the government appointed management is refusing to pay the workers.
The automaker owes months of salaries and other benefits to the workers. The protesting workers have been on strike since Thursday.
On October 20, Mohammad Jahromi, the mullahs' regime Labor Minister, in a rare admission said that "more [than] 250,000 workers lost their jobs in the first six months of this year (Persian calendar year starting March 22)," according to the state-run news agency ILNA.
In protest to layoffs and back-pays hundreds of factories and workshops went on strike last year.
Among them are: Havt-Tapeh Sugar Cane Factory in the southern city of Shoosh, Kiyan Tire factory in Saveh, Tabas Mining Factory, Sarcheshmeh Cupper Factory in the southern city of Kerman, Jahad Agriculture in the southern city of Bushehr, Gavmishan Dam Factory and Sugar-Beet Factory in the western city of Kamyaran, Siyah-Roukh Factory in the western city of Divandareh, Energy Company in the southern city of Asaloyeh, Aras China Factory in the northwestern province of Azerbaijan, Pashmineh Baf Factory in the western city of Qazvin, Mehrpouya Textile Factory in the central city of Isfahan, Navard Company in the western city of Karaj, Iran's Telecommunications and Sandouq Nasouz in Tehran, Hamid China Factory, and municipal workers in Sa'adabad, Avangan factory in the central city of Arak and Iran Khodro in Tehran.