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NCRI Staff<\/p>\n
NCRI –\u00a0According to a board member of Golestan Province\u2019s Fishermen Trade Union, 1400 fishermen in the province have not been paid for the past five months.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are 1400 fishermen in Golestan Province\u2019s \u2018Pareh Turkman\u2019 and \u2018Pareh Kumishtapeh\u2019 port towns, working for 21 cooperative companies. The sturgeon-harvesting workers, however, have not been paid in the last five months by the Specialized Agricultural Services parent company\u201d, says Aman Kalagi-Toumaj in his interview with state-run ILNA news agency on February 18, 2018.<\/p>\n
According to the report, the parent company as the employer blames shortage of funding and financial resources as the main reason for non-payment of workers\u2019 wages.<\/p>\n
As the board member of Golestan Province\u2019s Fishermen Trade Union points out, the company\u2019s Sturgeon Department officials have been saying for months that the company lacks adequate funding to pay the 1400 workers\u2019 overdue payments.<\/p>\n
This is while according to Aman Kalagi-Toumaj \u201cthe sturgeon-harvesting fishermen are working under extremely difficult conditions with the minimum wage that hardly reaches 110 dollars a month.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sturgeon harvesting season begins on October 12 each year and lasts until April 9 next year.<\/p>\n
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Also on February 17, 2018, Gholamreza Talebi, Executive Secretary of Golestan Worker House, had said that Yurt Coalmine\u2019s workers have not been paid for the past three months.<\/p>\n
In May 2017, a few days before regime\u2019s presidential election, a blast and subsequent collapse in Yurt Coalmine left dozens of miners dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are workers in Golestan Province who are paid only 110-130 dollars a month. And they can\u2019t afford protesting about it as they would be immediately sacked\u201d, says Talebi.<\/p>\n
This is not the first time that Iranian workers have not been paid for months. Longtime unpaid working has now turned into one of the workers\u2019 major problems in Iran, according to some worker activists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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