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Source: Iranian Labor
July 19, 2010
On July 18, the Iranian parliament was a scene of different workers protests. The first protest was by several hundred retired workers and pensioners who gathered by the parliamentary buildings in central Tehran to protest the recent measures taken by the ministry of welfare and social security officials. The ministry executives have introduced new rules requiring payment of deductibles by retirees and pensioners in their visits to the health clinics covered by the social security administration. The protesting retirees were also complaining about the required pension increases not being in acted in the new Iranian new year as called by law. The pensioners are to receive a ten percent increase in their pensions.. The protests have coincided with the social security week being held in Iran. Alireza Mahjoub, the deputy from Tehran and the Workers House representative in the parliament, met with the protesters for few moments.
In a separate action on the same day, several hundred employees of the Cultural Heritage Organization protested the recent directives requiring them to leave the capital Tehran. The directive is along the recent moves by the Ahmadinejad administration to reduce the population at the capital calling for transfer of the government administrative apparatus outside the capital city. The first of the government employees to receive notices are the 700 employees of the Cultural Heritage Organization who have been asked to vacate the capital city. Many who have refused have been terminated from their jobs.