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Class struggle in Iran: nurses fight for dignity and fair salaries
Nurses in Iran are waging an admirable struggle for pay above the poverty line, job security and against compulsory overtime despite the regime trying to suppress their voices and divide them, reports JAMSHID AHMADI
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AS WE approach the period in which the budgets are set and workers’ wages determined for the Iranian calendar year 1403 (2024-25), the situation for nurses in Iran is grim.
While the budget for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has increased by 43 per cent, there is apparently no budget for the payment of decent and proper nurses’ salaries.
Despite the governing regime’s opposition to increasing the national minimum wage in line with the rate of inflation on February 1 along with the labour minister’s attack on the workers’ movement and his insistence that wage levels would be set regionally — rather than a national minimum wage — on February 2, the widespread and almost daily protests of workers in Iran continue.
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