{"id":5797,"date":"2008-11-23T19:01:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T19:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/human-rights\/5797-iran-garbage-collectors-on-strike-in-abadan"},"modified":"2023-01-13T04:09:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T03:09:38","slug":"iran-garbage-collectors-on-strike-in-abadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-garbage-collectors-on-strike-in-abadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Garbage collectors on strike in Abadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-32735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2008\/11\/garbage_collectors.jpg\" alt=\"An Iranian garbage collector\" title=\"An Iranian garbage collector\"   width=\"120\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" \/>NCRI &ndash; Garbage collectors went on strike on Sunday over the sudden move by the mullahs&#39; municipal authorities to layoff some 1,200 in the southwestern city of Abadan. <\/p>\n<p>Strikers gathered outside the governor&#39;s office demanding their unpaid salaries and job securities.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Currently 2,000 garbage collectors work for the government in the city. However, in a suppressive measure, the municipal authorities have decided to turn over 800 government employees to private sector. The rest will be laid off. <\/p>\n<p>Turning over mostly government-run entities to so-called private sector is another way the mullahs&#39; regime is trying to escape from paying the deprived Iranian workers the fraction of what they deserve especially in terms of paying for their heath insurance. The private management for the formerly state-owned factories, workshops and other entities and in this case the city workers are mostly former Revolutionary Guards turned businessmen.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI &ndash; Garbage collectors went on strike on Sunday over the sudden move by the mullahs&#8217; municipal authorities to layoff some 1,200 in the southwestern city of Abadan. 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