The sorrow of oil, the sorrow of contemporary Iranian history
Where are you going in such a hurry?
The Privatization Organization presented a complete list of companies subject to divestment in 2016, and according to the list, 201 cases of divestment from the public sector to the private sector are scheduled to be carried out in the last year of privatization.
According to FCNN: After 10 years of implementing Article 44 and transferring state-owned companies to the private sector, the privatization program will end this year. According to the resolution of the Supreme Board of Transfers, 201 state-owned companies are to be transferred in the last year of transfers. A review of this list shows that very important companies are being transferred. Power plants, provincial gas companies, electricity distribution companies, international exhibitions of the Islamic Republic of Iran, fuel stations, subsidiaries of the Iranian Broadcasting Organization, 36 national gas subsidiaries, 9 national oil subsidiaries, along with 15 thermal power plants, as well as several important companies including the Post Company, Refah Kargaran Bank, Iranian Tobacco, fuel stations, Imam Khomeini Oil Refinery, Abadan Oil Refinery, Kermanshah Oil Refinery, Khuzestan Oil Refinery, Tabriz Petrochemical, Damavand Petrochemical, Dehloran Petrochemical, Firouzabad Petrochemical, Hegmataneh Petrochemical, and Ibn Sina Petrochemical Industries of Hamedan are on this year's divestiture list. Accordingly, 201 companies are on the divestiture list this year, of which 93 companies are in Group 1 and 108 companies are in Group 2. About half of these companies, equivalent to 101 companies, are among the companies that should have been transferred in 2015, but for some reason, the transfer did not take place and thus they have been added to the current year's list. Now the main issue is that considering the last year of transfers, the pressure of offers has increased greatly and compared to the average of transfers in the last 10 years, it has benefited from a significant growth. Now is it possible to transfer this high volume of companies in the last 9 months of the year? Although, according to the consultant of the Privatization Organization, the organization is making every effort to transfer all these companies to the private sector by the end of 2016, but assuming this is realized, considering the supply of a large part of these 201 companies through the capital market, it should be examined whether the capital market has the traction for the aforementioned offers?
While at first glance, after accepting the principle of privatization, it seems that a fundamental step has been taken in this direction, the reality is that in order to succeed in this process, the problems of privatization must be overcome.
In this context, deregulation, commercialization, liberalization, and transfer of assets and shares of companies are among the most important concepts of privatization that should be considered in this context. In the context of completing the commercialization category, the discussion of liberalizing the prices of petrochemical products and feedstocks is raised, and first their entry into the market and then liberalizing the prices of feedstocks and products of these units requires serious attention and consideration.
Increasing competition, improving efficiency, reducing costs, reducing government presence, increasing productivity, ensuring social welfare, providing the government with the necessary capital to offset the budget deficit, developing domestic capital markets, and accessing foreign financial resources and technology are among the most important goals of privatization in the country's oil industry.
Privatization is a very good idea in itself, of course, if it is based on a plan. In the petrochemical industry, privatization will be equal to eliminating the integrity of the petrochemical industry and creating a safe space for foreign competitors in the field of competition in the domestic and foreign markets. With privatization, the sleeping giant of Iran's petrochemical industry (what it has been called in the world) will be transformed into dwarfs that will not be considered for competition or investment. In the meantime, the managers of these companies will reap huge profits from low-priced transactions and endless trips. Employees will eventually return to the fold of oil with a protest and will be satisfied with their salaries and benefits.
*Cutting off welfare facilities for families is an injustice to the future of the Ministry of Oil
The pressure of work in the Ministry of Oil and the operational and psychological hardship of the jobs, especially in regions such as Khuzestan, required that, in order to stabilize the physical and mental condition of employees and their families, considering the deprivations, welfare conditions such as housing, sports clubs, recreation centers, and other centers be considered to provide security and peace at home, the possibility of greater accuracy in the workplace, and the security and mental health of employees. However, the first steps were to attack these conditions, and the loss of this welfare, in addition to the migration of a large number of specialists, especially in companies such as drilling, to competing foreign companies, as can be interpreted by considering media news, led to an increase in the accident rate, lack of competitiveness, and demotivation of employees.
But the families of the Ministry of Oil employees suffered the most. Their deprivations, due to the difficult working conditions of their wives, created depression and bitterness, which mental health experts in the oil industry have clearly felt, especially in Khuzestan and the more deprived areas. The welfare facilities provided to oil employees in Khuzestan were not a gift of convenience, but rather a way to reduce the pressure and stress of long-term work for them and their families, in order to control accuracy and safety at work.
*Employees who were sold with iron tools and land!
From the day the issue of privatization was raised in the Ministry of Oil, one of its biggest weaknesses was the lack of specific planning for human resources. In the story of transfers to other quasi-governmental departments, the human resources of the Ministry of Oil suffered such damage in terms of security and job character that if we interpret it as the largest tsunami of human resources in the history of oil, we are not exaggerating. On the one hand, the recruitment of human resources for political purposes in the Ministry of Oil, and on the other hand, disregard for all the laws and regulations of employment and appointment in this ministry, and ultimately, views without any basis or expertise, made the employees' lives dark.
For example, one of the natural rights of employees of the Ministry of Oil working in deprived and tropical areas was the possibility of exercising the right to move and transfer. This right was considered part of their legal rights and the regulations of the Ministry of Oil, but the quasi-privatization policies in the country also manifested themselves in the petrochemical sector of the Ministry of Oil in Khuzestan. In this large organization, employees were illegally deprived of their rights, and their personalities, social and work status were damaged. The Ministry of Oil unilaterally and unfairly first transferred these companies to the private sector and then practically transferred the employees of these companies along with their equipment to new quasi-governmental trustees, from banks to the Social Security Organization, etc., and then deprived them of the right to transfer under the pretext of prohibiting transfers from private to government companies.
Major corruption in the transfer of Kermanshah refinery: Brokers took over Kermanshah refinery with the help of government managers
Among the provinces that do not have happy memories of privatization, and poor implementation of the law has led to an increase in unemployment in that province, is Kermanshah province.
The issue of acting against the law, this time in the transfer of the Kermanshah Refinery, the second oldest refinery in the country. The Kermanshah Refinery is almost a century old and was bombed seven times by the Iraqi regime during the war, but it has always maintained its strategic position over the years. The government's decision to transfer it was justified by the fact that the Kermanshah Refinery had incurred huge losses and had accumulated billions in debts, an issue that drew criticism from the provincial assembly of representatives and was met with various reactions and protests from the people and senior officials of the province.
But rentiers have joined hands to buy the refinery and after enjoying the benefits, destroy it. If the Kermanshah refinery is revalued at the current price, its price is several times the current set price. Unfortunately, the revalua- tion is not done and in the expert prices, strange numbers are given that indicate a rent and a suspicious flow behind the scenes.
The only downside is that if they want to get electricity there from the Ministry of Energy, just the refinery's electricity branch, the cost is currently over 50 billion tomans. The land there costs over two million tomans per square meter, while the declared expert price is a maximum of two hundred thousand tomans per square meter. There are more than 50 billion tomans in the warehouse for facilities, including generators and machinery. But the price of scrap metal there is higher than the declared price.
But dear compatriot, let's learn more and ponder a little: "The transfer of bankrupt industries is against the law. Among the attachments to transfers and privatizations is the preservation of the use of companies and factories and the protection of workers and technicians."
Why should our government have the audacity to openly and practically violate the law and, by ignoring public rights, attempt to destroy national capital?
This is not only a violation of the law, but also a violation of human rights and destroys human rights and human motivations...
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