Workers have been very serious situation in Iran and poverty and unemployment are endangering their lives. Mismanagement of public officials on the one hand and international sanctions on the other hand has caused to stop productions of factories and workers wage remain suspended.
“Akbar Shovkati” chairman of Construction Workers Associations in Iran told ILNA Agency: “The sum of one million and 700 thousand construction workers, only 700 thousand construction workers are using the services of social insurance and despite having insurance requirement for employees to devote basket of goods, will be deprived of a million construction workers from government support “.
In this regard, Sohrab Naseri, one of the workers representatives of (Loole Gostar Factory) in province of North Khorasan announced the postponement of three months salaries of 650 workers, due to lack of funds.
“The factory is engaged in producing oil and gas transmission pipelines now reduced its production so to avoid paying workers’ wages because what the employer is called “lack of bank guarantees to sell products”, Naseri acknowledged.
On Wednesday 29 Jan, 200 workers of Zagros Steel Factory gathered in front of Qurwe Farmandari Office (Kurdistan Province) in protest against delay in their wages for seven months. One of the workers said ILNA Agency.
Continued pressures on the workers in Iran, Monday 29 Jan 150 Workers for Refrigerator Manufactory of “Iran Pooya” protested due to the lack of clear three percent of the shares of 2000 workers in this Manufactory.
Akbar Ghorbani one of the factory’s shareholders of Iran Pooya stated: “the company has been dissolved in March last year and because it took its dissolution without the approval of any official body, it is not clear yet at three percent of the factory’s shares that belongs to the workers.
There are more than 60 shareholders of the Company who have been wounded during the Iran-Iraq war that are Called them (Janbaz) veteran in Iran. Ghorbani declared.
Iranian workers are the most vulnerable segments of society who are always in bad shape due to lack of employment insurance and despite the promise by Labor Department officials still have not made a serious effort to improve their working conditions.
Source: Firat News Agency
Translated by: Rojhelat.info