Iran: Bushehr, Mahshahr protests by Sadra and petrochemical workers continue

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 On Tuesday, January 5, protests by disgruntled workers in Bushehr, southern Iran, and the petrochemical employees of Mahshahr continued. In Bushehr, workers of the Sadra Company refused to return to work. It is five months now that workers have not received their pay and no government official is prepared to hear their grievances. The workers have declared that they would continue with their protests.

In the southern port city of Mahshahr, over 700 official workers of the petrochemical complexes are still on strike in protest to their ambiguous employment terms. In pursuit of their plundering policies, the regime’s elements are trying to convert officially-employed laborers into contract workers.

These workers are officially hired by the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), while NIOC is selling petrochemical complexes to a private holding company in the Persian Gulf. This company is owned by the regime’s elements and its suppressive agencies, but works under the cloak of the private sector.

The companies that have been given up are Bou Ali Sina Petrochemical Industries, Amir Kabir Petrochemical Company, as well as Tondgouyan, Arvan, Fajr, Khuzestan, Maroun and Imam Port petrochemicals.