February 4th, 2019 
Petition Signed by 800 People Calls on Iran to Release Striking Haft Tappeh Workers Detained labor rights activist Ali Nejati is being denied medical treatment for heart disease and kidney and prostate problems in Shush Prison in the city of […]
Category: Labour News
Iran’s Judiciary Pushed To Act On Labor Activist’s Torture Case
A day after the Iranian Parliament announced it would investigate claims of torture by a labor activist following strikes at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane industrial complex, judiciary head Sadeq Amoli Larijani said he has called for an independent body […]
Britain’s leading trade union calls for the release of imprisoned trade unionists in Iran!
Unite the union statement condemning the arrests of striking Iranian steelworkers and the Iranian government oppression of trade unions. UNITE stands in full solidarity with the Iranian steelworkers of INSIG Ahvaz and the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Complex in their recent […]
More than 40 striking steelworkers detained in Iran
19.12.2018 IndustriALL Global Union has written to the government of Iran to condemn to the arrest of more than 40 striking workers at the Ahvaz Steel complex, in brutal raids at their homes on 17 and 18 December. About 31 […]
TUC calls Iranian government to account for wide scale union oppression
19 Dec 2018 The TUC denounces the actions of the Iranian government and their continually campaign of oppression against trade unionists, students and activists across Iran. The TUC expresses deep solidarity with the workers of INSIG Ahvaz and the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Complex in […]
Union activists tortured in Iran as strike wave spreads
06.12.2018 A wave of strike action across the province of Khuzestan has led to the arrest and torture of leading activists. Workers at the Iran National Steel plant in Ahvaz have taken strike action on several occasions over the past […]
ICTUR letter three recent incidents of organised industrial action
By e-mail: media@rouhani.ir infopack@irimlsa.ir iran@un.int Attn: Hassan Rouhani President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Office of the President Pasteur St. Tehran, IRAN CC: Mohammad Shariatmadari, Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare Mohammad Jaafar Montazeri, Attorney General […]
“Distribution of biscuits” and other peaceful activities earn an elderly Tehran bus driver over 5 years in prison
Two leading trade union activists in Tehran have been received 5-year prison sentences for engaging in legitimate, legal and peaceful trade union activities. Ebrahim Madadi, deputy chairman of the Syndica-e Vahed (Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Bus […]
ITF denounces Iran’s threat of death penalty in truck strike
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has condemned in the strongest of terms a reported call by an Iranian court for the issuing of the death penalty against 17 activists involved in a widespread truckers’ strike. 12/10/2018 “The death penalty […]
Teamsters Union supports Iran’s truck drivers’ strike
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, “North America’s strongest and most diverse labor union” with 1.4 million members in the US and Canada, supported Iran’s truckers in a letter to the Deputy Director of Iran’s interests in the US, Abolfazl Mehrabadi. The Letter, which was […]
