Unemployment is on the rise, inflation is at unprecedented levels and most people have to combine several jobs because the minimum wage is insufficient to counterbalance inflation. Iran’s population is experiencing an increasing income gap between rich and poor. 50% of the 75 million plus population live under the poverty line. Recent investigative reports have indicated that the population’s purchasing power has fallen by 72% over eight years from 2005 to 2013.
“Attempts in recent years to establish independent trade unions have been harshly repressed, and labour leaders have been imprisoned on charges including ‘acting against national security’ and ‘spreading propaganda against the system", stated Karim Lahidji, President of the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights and the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran “...workers are left with no legal channels to present their claims and no collective bargaining rights"
http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/iran_report_en.pdf
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