Forty workers have been laid off from the Aria Steel Factory in Ardestan County. According to Kolbarnews, due to reduced operating hours at the Aria Steel Factory caused by electricity imbalances, 40 workers from this industrial unit have been dismissed. The move has sparked significant discontent among the laid-off workers […]
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Repeated power outages in Iran have led to a serious crisis in the cement industry, and consequently in ready-mix concrete production workshops. According to Kolbarnews, Mohammad-Hossein Raeisi, Secretary of the Ready-Mix Concrete Producers Association, told ILNA News that nearly half of the concrete production units have shut down and warned […]
A tunnel collapse at the Kohbanan coal mine sent two workers to the hospital. According to Kolbarnews, on the morning of Sunday, May 18, 2025, Tunnel No. 20 at the “Hamkar” coal mine in Kohbanan County collapsed, resulting in injuries to two mine workers. Rescue teams quickly arrived at the […]
Five workers were injured or lost their lives due to unsafe working conditions. According to Kolbarnews, on Friday, May 17, 2025, due to the absence of safety standards in workplaces, five workers were involved in two separate accidents in the cities of Ramshir and Savadkuh. As a result of these […]
A recent analysis, grounded in a report by the Iranian Parliament’s Research Center titled “Monitoring the Dimensions of Poverty in 2023: Educational Poverty”, explores the correlation between income poverty and educational deprivation. It reveals a sharp decline in the quality of education in underprivileged regions, particularly among low-income households, largely […]
Twenty-eight thousand construction workers in West Azerbaijan province, including 10,000 in the city of Urmia, have been waiting for more than six years to receive social security insurance coverage. According to Kolbarnews, quoting ILNA, in July 2023, only 500 insurance quotas were allocated to construction workers in Urmia. Given the […]
An explosion at the “Avanar Parsian Meymeh” fireworks manufacturing factory in Shahin Shahr County resulted in the deaths of two workers and serious injury to a third. According to Kolbarnews, the incident occurred on the morning of Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at around 10:30 AM. One worker died at the […]
Eight Afghan migrant workers lost their lives and four others were injured following the overturning of a passenger vehicle transporting them on the Baghin to Bardsir route. According to Kolbarnews, the incident occurred in recent days, involving a vehicle carrying 12 migrant workers aged between 30 and 35, entering Iran. […]
Workers at the Kahnuj Titanium Mine have launched a protest against the widespread dismissal of local employees, demanding the reinstatement of the laid-off workers. According to Kolbarnews, on Saturday, April 26, 2025, dozens of local workers from the Kahnuj Titanium Mine in Kerman Province gathered to protest the firing of […]
A Baloch worker lost his life after falling from a 9-story building in Bandar Abbas due to unsafe working conditions. According to Kolbarews, on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, a Baloch construction worker named Abdolghafour Deliri fell from the ninth floor of an unfinished building in Bandar Abbas and died instantly. […]