Oil contract project workers will are coming back agsin. These workers have given an ultimatum that if their demands are not answered by the first of Tir (June 21), they will go on a massive strike. Wage increase and workers’ shifts of 14 days of work and 14 days of rest are their two main demands. In addition, these workers are protesting the bad condition of the camps and the bad health facilities of the work environment and the lack of safety in the working environment.
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A new round of protests by oil project workers has begun over the demand for increased wages. The organizing council of oil contract workers’ protests publishes the news of these protests under the headline “Immediate wage increase”. The latest news published by this council is as follows:
– More than 1,000 oil project workers at sites 1, 2, and 3 of Petro-palayesh are on strike due to the non-acceptance of wage increases as requested by the workers, and they have left the sites since May 21. Scaffolding, QC, administrative, and headquarters colleagues have also joined them.
– More than 1,200 workers working in Payandan, Exir Sanaat and IPMI companies in Phase 14 of Kangan, went on strike. They have left the workplace and are in the dormitories and their strike continues.
– 200 piping workers working in Exir Company have gone on strike and left the workplace. These workers also demand their arrears of March wages.
– The workers working in Kisson company stoped the work due to non-response to their demands.
– 300 workers of the Kian Sazeh contracting project left the workshop demanding an increase in their salaries and immediate payment of their arrears for the month of March.
Following these reports, the Organizing Council of Oil Contract Workers announced the conspiracies of the contractors and officials of oil project companies to push back these protests and declared: “The managing director of Alai Mahastan Company sent the workers on compulsory leave and replaced them with a new force. This issue has intensified the workers’ protest. In some places, contractors are trying to prevent the spread of strikes. Following these reports, the organizing council mentions other issues of protests by oil project workers, including protesting long work shifts of 22 days and 24 days and the deplorable work safety situation. At the end of this, the council while supporting the project workers’ strikes, emphasizes the uniting of all the project workers in these strikes. This council writes: “As we have already announced, the contractors are not even ready to accept the approval of the Supreme Labor Council and a 35% increase in wages, and all they are trying to do is to force the project colleagues to accept a new work contract with the same wages as last year. The first demand of our oil project workers is to push back the contractors and impose a 35% increase in wages as our right. Besides, we oil project workers expect a 45% increase in wages at all levels, and we are trying to achieve that, if the wages do not increase, our protests will take place in a wider range of companies.