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 […]
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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 […]
May 1st, International Workers’ Day, is not merely a symbolic date, it is a moment to echo the accumulated rage and silenced struggles of the oppressed, whose voices are heard not through official media, but in the reverberation of bullets and the wreckage left by bourgeois civilization. Under the rule […]
On the verge of International Workers’ Day, pressure on labor activists in Iran has intensified. According to Kolbarnews, on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, Zanyar Dabbaghian, a labor activist and former political prisoner, was summoned to the Intelligence Office in Sanandaj.Reports indicate that the summons came through a phone call from […]
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. […]
Due to the lack of safety measures and poor working conditions, a construction worker in Kamiyaran County lost his life after falling from a height while on the job. According to Kolbarnews, on Sunday, April 27, 2025, a construction worker in Kamiyaran County died after falling from a height.The worker […]
A bakery worker in Sanandaj was injured due to unsafe working conditions and the lack of workplace safety. According to Kolbarnews, the incident occurred while the worker was on the job. The report states that the 47-year-old baker’s hand got caught in a dough mixer machine, causing serious injury. Emergency […]
Naseh Feizi, a mine worker in Bukan, lost his life due to inadequate safety measures and negligence toward workers’ conditions. According to Kolbarnews, Naseh Feizi, a 45-year-old worker from the village of Dashghol, Bukan, died while working in one of the region’s iron mines. Reports indicate that the primary cause […]