{"id":12671,"date":"2018-11-15T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=12671"},"modified":"2018-11-15T20:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T00:02:40","slug":"iran-labor-protests-expand-to-unprecedented-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/12671\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Labor Protests Expand to Unprecedented Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concurrent with a sharp\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/12584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upsurge in protests &amp; strike<\/a>\u00a0in recent days in Iran including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/12640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teachers&#8217; Nationwide Strike<\/a>\u00a0, Labor protest also expands reaching an unprecedented level as employees of Haft Tappeh Sugarcane factory and National Steel Group in Ahvaz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TondarCanada\/status\/1063196882263003136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">join forces<\/a> to protest discrimination &amp; unpaid wages.<\/p>\n<p>Workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Company have been continuing their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-sugar-cane-employees-strike-for-seven-days\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strike<\/a>\u00a0for 11 day now protesting mismanagement of the company and seeking answers to their demands including wage arrears and unpaid salaries and benefits for months.<\/p>\n<p>The National Steel Group workers of Ahvaz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Saeed_Akhavan\/status\/1062773401109041154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have been protesting<\/a>\u00a0high cost of living and the several months of unpaid wages <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/25511-iran-steel-workers-on-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for several days<\/a>. They have now joined with the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane workers taking their protests to a new level. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TondarCanada\/status\/1063196882263003136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video of the Protest<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Iranian opposition leaders Maryam Rajavi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1062679203101982720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voiced her support<\/a>\u00a0for the protesting workers and said that workers\u2019 unity and perseverance against the mullahs\u2019 oppressive rule herald a free, prosperous <s><\/s><b>Iran<\/b> devoid of all forms of repression, discrimination and injustice.\u00a0\u201cPoverty, inflation, unemployment and corruption were brought to our country by the religious fascism, and will continue as long as this medieval regime is in power,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1062679203101982720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Wrokers-MR-Tweet-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Wrokers-MR-Tweet-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Wrokers-MR-Tweet.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Concurrent with a sharp\u00a0upsurge in protests &amp; strike\u00a0in recent days in Iran including Teachers&#8217; Nationwide Strike\u00a0, Labor protest also expands reaching an unprecedented level as <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/12671\/\" title=\"Iran: Labor Protests Expand to Unprecedented Level\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,5],"tags":[530,388,526,373],"class_list":["post-12671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-protests-news","category-news","tag-iran-nationwide-strike","tag-iran-protests","tag-iran-strike","tag-iran-uprising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12677,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12671\/revisions\/12677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}