Tehran Municipality Contractors Rally; Demand Salaries from Seven Years Ago
A group of Tehran municipality contractors gathered in front of the city council building on Behesht Street.
According to news published on social media, on Tuesday, July 4, these contractors gathered in front of the Tehran City Council building, holding a number of banners and chanting slogans, due to the non-payment of their wage demands, which have not been paid for about seven years.
According to this report, the maximum demand of these people is eight billion and the minimum is 50 million Tomans. These people gathered in front of the city council and demanded that their demands be addressed, that they talk to the city council members, and that they review the situation.
One of the protesters stated that he has been demanding 200 million tomans from the municipality since 2016, but said that during this period, he has only been paid five to six million tomans gradually at long intervals.
Protest rallies by employees and workers in production and service units, as well as retirees, have peaked and continued in recent years due to the ongoing economic recession in Iran.
This is not the first time that a group of municipal contractors have staged a protest. In late March of last year, a group of contractors for construction projects in Sanandaj Municipality gathered in front of the city council and the city hall, holding placards in protest of the municipality's failure to pay their outstanding debts.
On Sunday, November 12, a number of retired steel workers protested against the non-payment of their outstanding claims in front of the Ministry of Cooperatives and Labor and demanded guarantees for the implementation of medical obligations.
While protests from various sectors continue, the number of economic corruption cases, some of which involve well-known officials and individuals, has also increased in Iran.
The United States has repeatedly condemned institutionalized financial corruption and the plundering of Iran's God-given assets by the regime's affiliates, and has identified them as among the main causes of Iran's economic and financial problems. Not long ago, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted about the Islamic Republic's officials that they were involved in corruption instead of helping the people.
Source: Voice of America
