Iranian Workers Stage Protests Over Nonpayment Of Wages

[Joanne98]

Source: Radio Free Europe

Workers in Tehran are continuing to stage protests against nonpayment of salaries that, in any case, do not keep pace with inflation, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.

The most recent such protest, reported by the ILNA agency, was in Tehran on January 24. Employees of the Pars Metal Company gathered in front of the Iranian parliament. They staged a similar gathering last summer in front of the presidential office after having not been paid for five months.

Workers say not only are they not paid on time, the money they do get does not go far enough.

The minimum wage for workers in Iran is pegged at 303,000 tomans (around $290) a month. Aziz Amoli, a member of the board of the Confederation of Iranian Employers, recently said wages might be increased by 15 percent in the new year that begins in March.



Read more: http://www.rferl.org/content/iran_labor_protests/2288082.html

[fasttense]

1. It all comes down to economic abuse.

When the majority of a country's citizens are abused by corporations and governments to the point of starvation, they tend to revolt.

It will happen here too, but first the economy has to get much worse.

[Odin2005]

2. Wow, now Iranians are getting into the act!

There's somethin' happenin' over there...