{"id":217504,"date":"2020-04-30T14:36:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=217504"},"modified":"2023-01-23T18:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:17:29","slug":"editorial-irans-workers-a-powder-keg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/editorial\/editorial-irans-workers-a-powder-keg\/","title":{"rendered":"EDITORIAL: Iran\u2019s Workers: A Powder Keg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran most workers work under the daily-paid bases and are under no coverage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iranian workers have never been under such pressure during four decades of the mullahs’ rule, and they have never experienced such an unbearable situation. Because this year, in addition to all the pain and suffering caused by the mullahs’ regime, they also face another enemy called the coronavirus<\/a>, and they have to fight empty-handed on both fronts.<\/p>\n

Currently, most workers work under the daily-paid bases and are under no coverage.
\n\u201cIf a worker does not work during the day, he will have no salary and no money for dinner,” said the regime\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani, justifying the abolition of quarantine and forcing workers back to work.
\nRouhani\u2019s remarks in this regard as the regime\u2019s president, as well as being a disgrace for this corrupt and inhumane regime, portray the Iranian workers\u2019 situation under this regime in Iran. The majority of the Iranian workers have reached a point that if they do not work for a day, they will not even have bread to eat at night.
\nApparently, this situation belongs only to daily-paid workers. But the reality is that the vast majority of Iranian workers are currently in the same situation, because, according to government sources, “more than 96 percent of workers’ contracts are temporary and there are around 3 million non-registered workers in workshops who are unidentified. They are daily-paid workers and do not have insurance.”
\nTherefore, the term \u201cofficial worker\u201d has been purged and most of the workers are hired on permanent or temporarily contracts and most of them could be fired by the employer at any time, and the worker has no place to complain. The presence of an army of hungry people lining behind the factory\u2019s doors, who are willing to work under any circumstances in order to find something to eat, silences any protestive voice against the inhumane working conditions.
\nThus, workers are deprived of the least job security and are sometimes easily fired despite two or three decades of work experience. Government sources put the number of unemployed workers at 3 million before the coronavirus outbreak, which has been fatally exacerbated because of the coronavirus crisis. “The employment situation in Iran has become more fragile than before; from March 15 to the first week of April, 600,000 official workers have been laid off in the same short period of time,” the state-run Sharq newspaper reported on April 14.<\/p>\n

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On the eve of International Workers' Day, it is important to take a glimpse at the situation and position of workers in #Iran<\/a>, who constitute the majority of the country\u2019s population.https:\/\/t.co\/JiCLpvzOSM<\/a><\/p>\n

— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n