Iran: protesting of the Workers and University Graduates

 Protest gathering by the 'Haft Tappeh' sugarcane factory workers in Khuzestan.

The workers in some Iranian cities have protested against the poor state of their livelihoods and the overdue payments. For example on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th December 2016, the workers  protested against the poor state of their livelihoods and the overdue payments. In addition to that, the graduate students of the Petroleum University of Technology lodged a protest against the condition of employments.
According to Agency reports some protest have done in  some cities as : 

As ILNA News Agency reports:
-  protests of  workers of Poonel-Talesh Highway Project  against the overdue salaries and insurance payments on Sunday 25th December 2016.

Protests of workers of Iran National Steel Industrial Group protested against the overdue salaries in the company in Ahvaz on Sunday 25th December 2016.

Iran National Steel Industrial Group

 The workers of Agroindustrial Complex of Mahabad have been protesting for the continuing 25 days. 
As Tasnim News Agency : held a  rally of a group of graduates of Petroleum University of Technology for the 4th time in front of Parliament On Sunday 25th December 2016 to protest against the indeterminable status of employment in the national oil company by the government and in particular by the Ministry of Petroleum.
workers want their rights .

 Petroleum University of Technology

Also Protest gathering by the 'Haft Tappeh' sugarcane factory workers in Khuzestan.
Sugarcane cutters in Haft Tappeh staged their second protest on Saturday, December 24, against nonpayment of their salaries.
“The Haft Tappeh sugarcane company has only paid a small portion of the salaries of its sugarcane cutters, who work under extremely difficult conditions”, said the protesting workers.

Iran: No Job Security in the Factories

The Workers of Vegetable Oil Company 

NCRI - As state run Ilna news agency reported,300 workers of ball bearings manufacturing of Tabriz (Northwestern Iran) protested against the overdue payments on Wednesday November 9th 2016.
According to workers, the total unpaid wages are equal to the one-month salary and they expect the employer to resolve the insurance problems as well as paying debts. The workers acknowledged that the critical economic condition has also affected their current condition and the inefficiency of management plays an important role as well.
The Workers of Vegetable Oil Company Are Uncertain 
Ilna news agency also reported, on Wednesday November 9th 2016, no measure has been taken by the employers of Golnaz Vegetable Oil Company to resume the factory's production and to pay the overdue salaries of their workers.
Golnaz Vegetable Oil Company was shut down in mid-August 2016 since the employer announced the so-called financial problems and the production unit stopped working. Since then, over 1200 workers became unemployed.
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Iran: Hold a Protest Rally by Workers of a Major Sugarcane Company

Workers of a Major Sugarcane Company 

NCRI - The Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Agro-Industrial Company’s Naybar workers held a protest rally on Tuesday November 8.
The Naybar workers gathered in the factory area and in front of the administrative building, demanding that their insurance claims be recognized.
According to ILNA state news agency, one of the protesting workers has said that the reason for their protest has been non-payment of the unemployment insurance premium for the Naybar workers who have been working at the company between 1999 to 2013. He pointed to another protest held by the workers in 2014 regarding the same issue and said that ”following the event, the government issued a directive according to which an amount of 25 billion tomans was dedicated to the workers’ unpaid unemployment insurance premiums.”
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Iran: Firing Factory Workers with no unemployment Benefits

Firing Factory Workers with no unemployment Benefits

NCRI - According to news sources, 100 workers of Alborz Steel Factory in Takestan (Northwestern Iran) have been fired with their unemployment benefits undecided. One of the workers said in this regard that due to non-payment of insurance premium by the employer in the past16 months, the workers are not eligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits according to the insurance policy.
According to ILNA state news agency, about 150 workers have been working in this production unit, 100 of which have been fired so far in two occasions. The employer at this steel and rebar production unit has hired new work forces following their dismissal.
The laid-off worker have 15 years of work experience on average and their working contracts were renewed on a monthly basis.
Alborz Steel Factory workers state that all the workers are worried they’ll lose their job each month at the end of their contract. They added that 55 of their colleagues were also fired in March at the end of their work contracts. 
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