NCRI – On Monday, six hundred nurses demonstrated over their unpaid salaries in past six months outside Sadouqi's medical center in the central city of Yazd, according to the Resistance sources in Iran.
"In addition to our pay cut, we have not received any other benefits and our health insurance is in bad shape," said a head nurse participating in yesterday's protests.
Dean of the Sadouqi medical center told the protesting nurses that "the center has no budget to pay them now and whenever the funds are available they will be paid."
In the past year, it has been the workers who are facing pay cuts by the hand picked managements in the usually privatized factories. However, it is rapidly catching up with the other sectors of the Iranian work force.
Over past year thousands of workers went on strike over unpaid salaries in major Iranian factories such as Sugar Cane factory in the southern city of Shoosh, Iran Khodro and Kiyan-tire in suburban Tehran.
It was only on Sunday when Kiyan-tire factory workers symbolically burned used tires to catch the attention of commuters on Tehran-Saveh highway.
