More than 200 workers from the Iran Pars Garment factory marched from the city of Rasht (northern Gilan province) to the Iranian capital Tehran in a dispute over backpay.
The workers have not received their salaries for the past seven months and Gilan Workers’ Union demands for government action have proven fruitless.
Overdue wages have become routine in Iran in recent years as the government has not enforced laws and regulations concerning workers’ wages and benefits. Generally it has sided with factory owners, and clamped down on workers’ protests.
In another dispute, workers at Khorram Vault-making Company went on an indefinite strike to protest overdue wages and management corruption. They have not received their wages for the past three months. And cotton factory workers from the central Iranian town of Khomein protested outside the Interior Ministry’s provincial headquarters, demanding that the government pay their overdue salaries.
