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Article: IRAN: WORKERS COMPLAIN OF REPRESSION AND LOW WAGES.
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- Interpress Service
- Article date:
- May 2, 2007
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by Kimia Sanati
TEHRAN, Iran, May 2, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Workers rallied against unemployment, low wages, shortcomings in labor laws and suppression of workers' unions at a well-attended May Day gathering Tuesday at Tehran's Shiroudi Stadium.
Among other demands, thousands of workers called for the resignation of Mohammad Jahromi, the labor minister under hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Permission to hold the rally was granted only a day before the event. Concerned about threats of violence, the organizers -- mainly the Worker House union and the Islamic Labor Party -- repeatedly called on workers to limit their chanting to trade ...