NCRI – Workers of Iran’s famous sugar cane plantation held a protest over the weekend after hundreds of their colleagues were laid off from work.
The workers of the “Haft Tapeh” sugar cane factory held the protest in the morning on Saturday, May 7, blocking off the road leading to the factory, which is situated in the south-western province of Khuzestan.
The rally was in protest to the dismissal of 300 workers from the factory.
Workers at the factory have held numerous protests demanding fair pay or their overdue wages in recent months.
The plantation has witnessed numerous other protests in recent years.
The Iranian Resistance has repeatedly called on international unions and labor organizations and the International Labor Organization (ILO) to condemn the anti-labor policies of the clerical regime and suppression of workers in Iran.
“In Iran under the mullahs’ rule, all basic rights of workers, such as the right to work, independent trade unions and syndicates, job security, and insurance are strongly violated and every day a large number of workers are arrested and sent to prison due to demanding these basic rights,” the Labor Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said in a statement on May 1, 2016.
