Saturday, 13 December 2008

NCRI – Garbage collectors walked out in protest to their back pays by the mullahs’ local authorities in the port city of Khorramshahr in southwestern Iran, reported the state-run website Tabnak on Friday.
The municipal employees went on strike over their unpaid salaries. They have not been paid for the past four months.
Workers gathered outside governor’s office demanding their rights. Garbage has not been collected and caused much discomfort among the citizens.
Abadan and Khorramshahr are two cites completely destroyed by the Iran-Iraq war. However, after two decades since the end of the war local residents are suffering from extreme poverty.
On November 24, Garbage collectors went on strike over the sudden move by the mullahs’ municipal authorities to layoff some 1,200 in Abadan, some 18 kilometers south of Khorramshahr.
Some 2,000 garbage collectors work for the government in the city. However, in a suppressive measure, the municipal authorities have decided to turn over 800 government employees to private sector. The rest will be laid off.
Turning over mostly government-run entities to so-called private sector is another way the mullahs’ regime is trying to escape from paying the deprived Iranian workers the fraction of what they deserve especially in terms of paying for their health insurance. The private management for the formerly state-owned factories, workshops and other entities and in this case the city workers are mostly former Revolutionary Guards turned businessmen.