Based on incoming reports, workers of the so-called “Bandar Imam” petrochemical complex in southern Iran staged a gathering on Sunday, September 25, at the end of a deadline for an agreement with company officials for contract companies to be ousted from the complex.
Based on reports from inside Iran, following a large strike carried out by these workers in April of this year and 6 months of tension between the workers and employers – along with the petrochemical management’s promises to meet the workers’ demands – a session was to be held between workers’ representative and the company in this regard on Wednesday, September 21st. When the company employers said they needed another 15 days to get prepared for negotiations, the workers’ representatives refused this request and described it as yet another tactic by the employers to waste even more time. Thus, the company employers were forced to leave the area after waiting for 6 hours hoping the workers’ would step back from their demands.