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A significant breakthrough! Strike action spreads rapidly across Iran
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AN UNPRECEDENTED wave of strike action is under way in the gas and oil fields of Iran, as workers down tools over the late payment of wages, insecure employment contracts, poverty pay and intolerable working conditions.
Temperatures in Iran’s refineries can reach up to 50°C, a danger to health and almost impossible to work in.
An estimated 10,000 workers have been involved in unofficial strike action which has hit major refineries and industrial projects in Iran’s South Pars gas fields.
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