Workers at the Tehran Oil Refinery say that following their strike to protest the low level of their earnings, the refinery officials distributed a settlement form among 700 workers to expell them from their jobs.
Oil workers in different cities have joined a nationwide strike in the oil and petrochemical industries in protest to low wages and difficult working and living conditions.
The strike began on June 19, and on Wednesday, June 23, workers of Tehran South Company in Mahshahr port, Kayhan Pars Company in Isfahan Refinery, Adish Petroleum Refinery, Jask oil reservoirs, and Damavand Petrochemical joined the strikes.
Workers at the Tehran refinery went on a nationwide strike on Tuesday. Shortly after the strike began, refinery managers managers threatened to fire the workers and distributed settlement forms among them.
In a video posted online on June 22, striking workers ask for support while holding settlement forms.
“We came and protested for our rights. They gave us these papers for liquidation,” said one striking worker. “Everyone is being fired.”
The main demands of workers are to reduce working days and increase days off (20 working days, 10 days off), increase wages, and eliminate temporary contracts.
In previous days, contract workers of oil and petrochemical industries, power plants, and oil rigs in Tehran oil refineries, Tondgouyan, Bidkhoon, AGC Abadan, Bid-Boland Behbahan, South Pars gas field companies (Asaluyeh), Omran Sana’t petrochemical companies, Sadaf, Jahan Pars, Payandan, Satrap Sana’t, Qeshm Refinery, Lidoma, Overhaul Dena Petrochemical, Jahan Pars, Phase 13 (Akhtar Phase) South Pars, Phase 13 Kangan, Hajipour, Qeshm Oil Reservoirs, Bushehr Petrochemical, Gachsaran Petrochemical, Exir Sana’t, Rhyton, and Marine Operations in the Iranian Oil Terminals Company in Khark have joined the strike.
