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National Council of Resistance of Iran |
On June 15 miners in gold mine of the village of Agh Darreh of city of Takab in West Azarbaijan and other residents of this village in the twentieth day of their sit in were attacked by repressive police forces. A number of villagers including women were injured and some were also arrested.
They are protesting against unemployment and the difficult situation of their livelihoods, exploitative seasonal contracts and the loss of their grasslands by heavy vehicles. The IRGC Intelligence in the days before had threatened the protesters that if the protests continued, they would face 'acting against national security' charge In June 2016, the mullahs’ Judiciary condemned 17 workers of this mine for protesting their firings to 30-100 lashes and a cash fine of 500,000 tomans ($140). The lashing sentence was carried out in public.
Takab gold mine, Iran’s second largest gold mine and one of the large gold mines in the Middle East is in the grip of Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). Government employers refuse to sign stable work contracts with workers, and employ them with seasonal contracts that are nothing but slavery in the twenty-first century. The employers even replace these seasonal indigenous workers with non-indigenous workers who are willing to work with lower wages due to extreme poverty. The miners are forced to work without safety equipment and special masks in medieval conditions, causing a large number of them to develop tuberculosis.
On June 15, workers of Zarand Kerman coal mine gathered in Abolfazl Mosque intersection in the city of Zarand to protest the non-payment of their wages and benefits, and closed down the road. On June 13 and 14, the miners of Pabdanan south of Zarand protested against non-payment of their salaries for six months to a year. They are also protesting the fact that 30 fired miners in protests of last year still have not returned to their work.
On June 14, contract workers of Sarcheshmeh copper mine rallied in front of the headquarters of this mine to protest that the extent of their contract is only two months and their benefits are reduced.
Last month Homayoun Hashemi, member of parliament of the regime in the aftermath of the explosion at the Yurt mine in Golestan province that killed at least 43 miners, said: 'Currently there are 100 mines in my district whose situations are worse than Yurt. I notified the ministers many times but nothing happened ... It is about 22 months that some of the workers in these mines have not been paid and last month 200 miners were fired.” (Isna state run news agency – May 9)
Meanwhile, workers' protests in various cities continue:
On June 15, 500 day laborers of Khuzestan Haft Tappeh sugarcane company stopped working and began to gather in the factory to protest the non-payment of their wages.
On the same day workers of Fadak brick company in Mazandaran, in protest against cutting the factory gas by the gas company, gathered in the governor’s office for several consecutive days. Gas cut off because of debts to the gas plant has resulted to factory closure and unemployment of the workers.
Sit in of the municipal workers of Susangerd, gathering of workers of Shushtar Karoon Fish company in protest to the lack of job security, workers' protest of Mamassani sugar factory, gathering of workers of Second District of Municipality of Abadan, gathering of more than 300 contract workers of green space of 8th district of municipality of Ahvaz in protest to unpaid wages and benefits, are among the workers' protests on June 14.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 17, 2017
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