According to the report published by the Council for Organizing Protests of Unofficial Oil Workers (Third pillars), today, November 5, the 14th week of protest Tuesdays of third pillar workers and the support of contracting companies was held. According to the report, despite the threats of security forces and the managers of the work centres, these gatherings were held in the third, fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and twelfth refineries of South Pars Gas Complex. In the gatherings of this day, the workers of the third pillars chanted: “We will stay, we will sit, we will get our rights”, “A fair wage is our inalienable right”, and they chanted “liar, liar” against the management.
In a part of the report of the organizing council of unofficial oil workers’ protests, emphasizing the continuation of the protests, it is stated “With today’s slogans, we declared oil workers, like the protesting nurses and pensioners and all the oppressed people and like the students who are in the streets these days .., we know the liars, we are present in the fight against those who are the cause of the existing conditions, and we stand in solidarity with other protestors from different parts of the society in the same line…”
The main demands of our colleagues of the third pillars are: the right to organize, assemble and protest, the complete removal of contracting companies, the immediate and unconditional return to work of all fired workers and an end to security measures against protesting workers, the correct implementation of the job classification plan and a fair and equal payment system for formal and contract workers following previous agreements with the Ministry of Petroleum.
Also on October 22, the workers of the third pillars gathered and protested for their demands. .
While reporting this news, the organizing council for the protests of oil contract workers has also announced its support for the third-pillars workers and the protests of various sectors of the oil workers. Support the demands and struggles of the oil workers.