Iran Feature: The Week in Civil Society --- Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt (Arseh Sevom)
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 7:59
Iranian workers protest over unpaid wage in front of the Ministry of Industry, 14 August 2012
Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt
According to Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) [fa], the Saipa car factory in Kashan has dismissed more than 10,000 employees. Saipa in Tehran has also reduced the shifts from three to just one. Asr-e Iran reports that the automobile production rate has been reduced by 66.2%.
More than 600 steel workers demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Labor, demanding five months of unpaid wages. The protest was a follow-up
to the workers' claim of eight months of unpaid salaries --- despite a settlement, only three months were paid.About 200 members of Tehran’s Metropolitan Vahed Bus Company gathered Wednesday in front of the Tehran Municipal Building to protest discrimination in pay. They also called for the dismissal of the managing director of the company and an investigation into their unpaid salaries.