Iran: Teachers protest to demand job security

Teachers, male and female and other staff from the Ministry of Education demonstrated on Monday, May 2, in front of the Iranian regime’s Parliament in Tehran demanding proper job contracts and security.
At the same time, a number of female teaching assistants employed in the Literacy Movement Organization lodged a protest for a second consecutive day outside the Parliament, demanding formal employment and their unpaid salaries.
The demonstrators held a sit-in in front of the main door of the Parliament, calling for their demands to be met.
Also on Monday, a group of school employees of the Ministry of Education rallied outside the Parliament in protest against their dismissal compensation, demanding a return to work.
The demonstrators were mostly women working in schools who were in charge of providing services to teachers and educational staff.
On Saturday, April 30, in a ceremony on the eve of International Workers’ Day in Tehran, the regime’s suppressive police forces arrested Hossein Azargashb, a teacher and the member of the Children’s Rights Support Center, as well as Rasool Taleb-Moqaddam and Nasser Moharram-Zadeh, two members of the bus company syndicate, for holding placards in defense of workers’ rights.
At the end of the ceremony, the repressive regime forces released the two members of the bus company syndicate, but they transferred Hossein Azargashb to the notorious Evin Prison.