In a drive to destroy the independent union at the giant Haft Tapeh plantation/refining sugar complex in southern Iran, a court on October 12 sentenced six union leaders to prison on charges of “endangering national security.”
Their only crime was to lead a strike.
Haft Tapeh workers have repeatedly had to resort to strikes and other actions to claim huge wage arrears and protest deteriorating working conditions.
“The regime is clearly determined to crush the union by putting its entire leadership behind bars,” writes the IUF, the global union federation for food workers.
They’ve launched an online campaign of protest. Please take a moment and send off your messages:
http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=449
To learn more about the case, read this:
http://www.iuf.org/den6280
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