According to the Independent Iranian Workers’ over 1200 labourers and 250 senior engineers at the Safa steel works in Saveh, an industrial town south of Tehran, have gone on strike.

They gathered outside the factory gates and set light to tyres to stop lorries coming in or going out.

The report added that Saveh’s governor visited the site and promised the workers that December wages would be paid if they ended the strike. However activists said there would be no return to work until the factory had paid all wages outstanding from the last six months.

The workers told the governor that the factory’s management made only empty promises, and they no longer trusted them. They had now formed a united council to represent their demands.

Source: Shahrzadnews