Increasing working hours, raising the retirement age, daily layoffs of workers from permanent jobs and converting official contracts into temporary ones, greater exploitation of child laborers at much lower wages, the growing phenomenon of street children, reduction of state services and welfare and healthcare facilities, unprecedented intensification of environmental pollution […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Maziar Seyednejad, labor activist and political prisoner, has been released from Evin Prison after completing his sentence. According to Kolbarnews, on Monday, May 12, 2025, Maziar Seyednejad was released from Evin Prison following the end of his prison term.On December 20, 2024, the Khuzestan Court of Appeals Branch 16 accepted […]
Omid Abdouli, a resident of Naqadeh, lost his life due to electrocution while at work. According to Kolbarnews, on the evening of Wednesday, May 7, 2025, a worker from the city of Naqadeh died as a result of a workplace accident. The identity of the deceased has been confirmed as […]
Payam Fathi, a labor activist from Sanandaj, was summoned to the city’s Intelligence Office just ahead of International Workers’ Day. According to Kolbarnews, on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, Payam Fathi received a phone call from security forces instructing him to appear at the Intelligence Office at 10 a.m. that same […]
Mahmoud Salehi, a prominent leader of the labor movement, was assaulted by plainclothes agents in Saqqez on International Workers’ Day. According to Kolbarnews, on Thursday, May 1, 2025, Mahmoud Salehi an influential activist and leader of the Kurdish and Iranian labor movement was attacked and beaten in Saqqez. The report […]
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 […]