About 2,000 workers from Tehran staged a
sit-in at the Tehran Labor House on Wednesday, on the eve of May Day,
to protest working conditions, wages and privatization, IRNA reported.
The protesters in the meeting called for defending the rights of
workers and countering capitalism.
"Without unity and solidarity, workers would not be able to
achieve all their legal rights and demands," Head of Iran's Islamic
Labor Councils Hassan Sadeqi told IRNA on sidelines of the meeting.
A resolution, read out at the end of the protest meeting,
criticizes zero share for laborers of the profits, reaped by
capitalists due to laws which facilitate cycle of capital circulation.
It said all laws and regulations should take economic and social
justice into account to improve conditions of workers and the fixed
income group.
The resolution also called for a logical system for wage payment,
halting privatization, curbing the rising contraband of goods in a bid
to support domestic production, scrapping bureaucracy, creating
jobs and facilitating investment.
