Dozens of Ahwazi workers protest against their arbitrary dismissal and unpaid salaries
Large number of Ahwazi workers demonstrated in a different part of Ahwaz region in protest against their arbitrary dismissal by the Iranian job departments.
Iranian regime officials has fired dozens of Ahwazi workers from “Mirza Kuchak Khan” Sugar company, and brought new Persian workers in order to work and settle in Ahwaz region.
In the Ahwazi unemployed workers protest, the protestors demanding their employment and pay the dues for their arbitrarily dismissal from work instead of seeking to bring new workers.
According to local sources, the municipality workers of the fifth, sixth and eighth districts of Ahwaz capital stopped working for several days, due of the Iranian failure to respond to their legitimate demands, in light of their difficult living conditions, which has been deteriorating for months.
Following are the workers demonstration that taken place in different place of Ahwaz region:
Approximately 250 of “Kot Abdullah” municipality workers protested to the governmental failure to pay their salaries in the first three months of this year.
Ahwazi workers stayed without salaries on the Eid Fitr occasion.
Ahwazi activists in the region said the reasons for these evictions are ethnic issues.
One of the Ahwazi workers in Phase 2 of the Abadan refinery has lost his life after he fell from height.
The Ahwazi victim who is working on monthly contract basis, named as Mr. Rauf Salmani, 32, was a football player of Shahid Jahan Nejadian football team at the same time during his Abadan Refinery second phase job.
Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights
22-June-2019
