Yet again this weekend, Iranian workers have been out protesting for their most basic rights, to fair wages and job security, showing that the people of Iran will not rest in their fight for justice, especially if it will also take down the Iranian regime.
All the following protests happened on Sunday, February 7, 2021.
Contract teachers gathered outside the parliament to protest over their work status, demanding that Members of Parliament hold a vote to make the teachers full time. This is just one of several demands by contract teachers over the past few years, including being paid overdue wages and bonuses.
They chanted: “We have suffered much. We’ve seen no justice.”
The education minister confirmed that many contract teachers have not received their wages for the first half of the Iranian year, which runs March 21- March 20, which the deputy education minister for planning and resource development blamed on the government’s “financial constraints”.
Meanwhile, pensioners in Khuzestan province protested outside the governorate over their dire living situation, saying that after 42 years, the Iranian regime has only brough hunger upon the pensioners, even pinning a banner to the governorate building that read, “The cry of hungry pensioners”.
Pensioners are quite used to protesting the failing economic conditions, mainly because their pensions have not been adjusted to meet new exchange and inflation rates, which are the result of the regime’s corruption and mismanagement. As a result, pensioners cannot afford even their basic needs.
At the same time, toll workers in Qazvin rallied outside the governor’s office over the layoff of over 130 customs workers because of the introduction of electronic devices.
On a banner addressed to the provincial governor, protesters wrote: “You have turned our hopes into despair. We have nothing to lose. Months have become years. When will you respond?”
They have been protesting outside government offices on a regular basis.
The workers of HEPCO, which is a large industrial manufacturer in Arak, protested outside the parliament to demand that promise made to them be kept.
One worker said: “Once again, we intend to raise our voices to relevant officials on behalf of the noble workers of HEPCO company. By participating in front of the Ministry of Labour, the Parliament (Majlis), and the Social Security Organization, we demand officials accelerate implementing their promises.”
They’d held a similar protest rally outside the Social Security Organization on Saturday, February 6.
