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GVF: Workers’ wages not paid for six months
GVF — An MP from the city of Arak has spoken of job losses at a plant of a company called Abangan in the city of Arak.
Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani who represents Arak in the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) told the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA), that ceding the company and the subsequent unemployment that it would lead to, meant that it would be better not to implement article 44 of the Iranian constitution which refers to the economy and financial affairs.
Ashtiani stated that on the basis of article 44, Abangan was ceded at a price of around fourteen million dollars and they have even received fifty million dollars of government loans, and yet workers are losing their jobs at the company.
This morning, workers from the Iranian Telecommunication Indutustry (ITI) arrived in Tehran and took their complaints to the Ministry of Industry and Mines building.
According to the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA), today’s protest took place after the Ministry refused to meet the demands of the workers, which it had previously promised to do.
One of the workers told ILNA that “thirteen months of unpaid wages are problematic for us. Workers have come from Shiraz to Tehran on New Year’s Eve to materialise their demands which the government had promised to meet and they [the workers] will not go home empty-handed.”
Last week a group of 200 workers from the plant belonging to ITI arrived in Tehran to claim their rights from the illegitimate government which then promised them to pay the total of around two million dollars of their unpaid wages until Saturday.
However, as with other empty promises made by the Iranian government, it failed to comply with the workers’ basic demands. Four days after the due date set by the Ministry of Industry, the workers’ wages were still not paid.
The ITI plant which is located in the historic city of Shiraz has 700 workers and has not paid their wages for the past thirteen months due to a lack of funds.
ITI is only one among the many plants that has not been able to provide its workers with pay. Ahmadinejad’s disastrous economic policies have ensured a continuous worsening of the situation of workers since he took office in 2005, and once again through rigged elections in June 2009.
GVF: 600 at Babol university protest fellow students’ prison sentences
GVF — Yesterday, more than 600 students from Babol Noshirvani University of Technology protested against the prison sentences handed down to two students from the university.
During the protest, students Iman Sedighi and Mohsen Barzegar explained the procedures that led to the issuance of their prison sentences. The students present at the protest expressed their condemnation of the court’s verdict against the two students.
An Iranian human rights website, reported that students at the Babol Noshirvani University of Technology then saw off their two fellow students towards the gates of the university while chanting slogans and singing sons.
Barzegar and Sedighi have to introduce themselves to the prison in order to commence their prison terms.
A statement issued by students at the university was published among students in addition to a publication for women’s day. The statement condemned the harsh sentences handed down to Iman Sedighi, Mohsen Barzagar, Nima Nahvi, Ali Taghipour, Hamid Jahan Tigh, Hesam Bagheri as well as the charge of Moharebeh against Behzad Azar Houshang, a graduate of the university and a study ban for Siavash Saliminejad.
It should be noted that if the court does find Azar Houshang guilty of Moharebeh, he will be facing the death penalty.
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