NCRI – Some 1,500 part time teachers gathered outside mullahs' Majlis (parliament) from the western province of Lorestan protesting to contract conditions with the local branch of Ministry of Education.
A vulnerable part of the country's work force with fixed incomes, the teachers have been protesting to unpaid salaries and contract conditions since last year.
In early March of 2007, the Iranian teachers went on strike in various cites throughout the country.
In the capital ninety percent of high school and seventy percent of primary school teachers went on strike. Ninety percent of teachers in the north-eastern city of Mashhad and fifty percent in the northern city of Sari did not show up at school.
On March 7, 2007, the State Security Forces (SSF) attempting to break the teachers’ strike attacked their residence and has arrested a large number of striking teachers in Tehran, Mashhad, Arak, Sari, Islam-Shahr, RobatKarim, Shahr-Ray, and Homayoon Shahr.
On March 8, 2007, some 15,000 Iranian teachers gathered outside the regime’s Majlis (parliament) to warn the ruling clerics that if their demands are not met, equal pay with the rest of government employees, they would go on strike indefinitely.
