For the tenth consecutive day, workers in oil, gas, petrochemicals, steel, power plants, and copper mines continue their strike in what is called Iran.
The worker strike has affected 110 workshops and industrial companies in 38 cities, making it the largest and widest strike in the history of strikes within Iran’s geography, leading to a state of paralysis within the oil, gas, and steel sector.
The striking workers demanded several of these, including a 79% increase in wages, twenty days of work and ten days off for overwork, removal of invasive contractors, and improvement of living facilities in residential and living camps.
On the eve of International Workers’ Day, Tasweh Irani newspaper wrote: “The workers’ right to participate in self-determination is almost zero, which indicates that the workers’ voices are not heard at the workshop level, nor at the national level, and their petitions do not reach anywhere.”
