Workers’ stolen salaries been transferred to Canadian Bank
43 days of strike so far and no reasonable answer either by government or by company’s authorities. The Sugarcane workers of Haft Tapppeh Company don’t demand a lot. They demand that their poor wages be paid on time, their fired colleagues are returned to work, and the employer pays his contributions quota to the Social Security Organization so that the workers can use their health insurance. And the privatisation of the company be stopped because the private sector is just stealing and directing the company towards bankruptcy and complete closure. Which in turn puts all 5000 workers’ jobs in danger.
This sugarcane company was handed over to private sector about 5 years ago. And the new owner and CEO, Omid Asadbeigi from the start, has violated the workers’ rights and looted their poor salaries and payments and imposed more poverty and austerity on the workers’ lives.
Because of different theft and bribery records, Asad Beigi is now under investigation by a court in Iran. One item of his thefts that been disclosed by the court is $700,000,000 that been sent to a bank account in Canada. But workers have not been paid for months and months. This hundreds of millions of Dollars definitely is workers’ salaries and health insurance that been dispatched to Canada. There are certainly other astronomic monies in his other accounts in different countries.
Free Them Now calls on all workers’ unions and organisations to support the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane workers’ demands and put pressure on Canadian authorities to return this money to the Sugarcane Company to be spent for workers’ unpaid salaries and other workers’ unpaid demands. We know that banks have their own rules, but this is a special case and officially is called money laundering and theft. The Haft Tappeh workers expect help and support from their classmates. Please disclose this issue, i.e. stealing the company’s money and transferring it to Canadian banks, and spread the word widely. Express your support for the Haft Tappeh sugarcane workers.
The Haft Tappeh Sugarcane workers need your urgent support in their on-going struggle.
Campaign to Free Jailed Workers (Free Them Now)
27 July 2020