Industrial Worker - Issue #1713, February/March 2009

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Iran: Isfahan Steel workers stage symbolic hunger strike It is reported that workers at the Isfahan Steel Mill Factory have begun a symbolic hunger strike on February 28th 2009 which will continue for two weeks. According to reports from Iran, they will not have the meals served at the factory premises. The initiative comes in protest to inappropriate working conditions and both open and veiled discriminations against workers. They are also objecting to a wide gap in pay between full time and part time employees in the factory, as well as lack of job security. Isfahan’s Steel Mill Factory has over 10,000 part time and 8,000 full time workers.