– Telecommunication employees of several cities including Yazd, Qazvin, Urmia, Tabriz, Ahvaz, Arak and Shahre Kurd , protested against the termination and reduction of the recruitment and the lack of payment increase and of the welfare allowance and non-payment of legal arrears of productivity bonus. The telecommunications workers started gathering because of the employment regulations approved in 2019. Their protest is the low level of salaries and the tsunami of high prices. These protests continue.
– The contract workers of Tabriz Petrochemical company gathered in front of the entrance of this petrochemical centre to protest against the low wages and the huge difference between their salaries and the official employees. In the first step, their desire is equalization of rights and elimination of discrimination. Oil workers have repeatedly emphasized on cutting the control of contractors and making employment permanent. Petrochemical workers of Tabriz had a strike and rally on July 5th.. The wages of these workers is a maximum of ten million toman a month (ca $300), and for the same work as official workers, sometimes they get a quarter or a fifth of their wages. These workers also get 800,000 KRW and their wages are lower than their official colleagues. The Islamic government always seeks profit from the gap it has created between the status of official and contractual workers to divide them. Against these divisive actions, official oil workers in a statement emphasized the nationwide union of all workers working in oil and considered the dismantling of the contractors’ table as a main link for workers’ union and powerful protests. The official workers have also demanded an immediate increase in their salaries due to the increasing growth of the inflation rate and have declared that the salary of no official oil worker should be less than 25 million and they have given an ultimatum that if their demands are not answered, they will gather again on July 27th.
– The workers of Darugar factory (a pharmaceutical company) gathered in protest of the umpteenth time due to the non-fulfilment of wage increase and insurance claims, lack of job security, removal of commuting service, and also the failure of the management to determine the status of the factory.
– July 11th: Ms Asal Mohammadi, one of the workers’ rights activists, who was previously arrested in connection with the Haft Tepe sugarcane workers’ protests, went to Evin prison to serve her one-year prison sentence.