Human Rights in Iran – Today,
Wednesday, April 24, 2020, construction workers currently working in the railway
buildings of Shahroud have 3 months of deferred monthly salaries. These
citizens are also deprived of the right to have access to hygiene items such as
masks and environmental disinfectants to prevent coronavirus. They were
summoned on the days of the quarantine, by the contractor to work while the contractor did not provide them with the prevention means of the deadly
virus.
According to the report of Human Rights in
Iran, quoting from ILNA, today, Wednesday, April 24, 2020, the non-payment of 3
months' salary arrears to 550 construction workers currently working in the
railway buildings of Shahroud have caused dissatisfaction among these
citizens. They are also deprived of having access to masks, gloves and
other items to prevent coronavirus and are at high risk for the deadly coronavirus. All
550 railroad workers have been on duty since the first days of the quarantine,
because of being forced by the contractor, and some of them are infected by the
coronavirus.
"Having the coronavirus has caused a great
deal of concern among us, and currently six to seven of our colleagues have the
virus," the workers said.
They added: "The contracting company has
not yet made any acceptable arrangements to prevent us from the coronavirus,
and we have only been given just one mask on the first day since April 14, when
we resumed our work on the railways, but not on other days.”
"In order to repair and inspect the rails,
we have to take about 15 to 20 workers at each station on a single train (aka
small train) without any preventive measures," the workers said of how
they work these days when officials claim the social distance. They take
us by vans to the workplace. Our infected colleagues with coronavirus, in
fact, are infected by getting in touch with others through sharing the same
workplace and transportation. On Tuesday, the result of a corona test for one
of the workers was positive, and all we are worried about is why the
contractors of the technical structures of the railways do not care about the
lives of the workers."
According to another worker, "We travel
long distances between the Garmsar to Niqab railway lines, repair rails and
broken tracks, and avoid accidents lurking on trains. Under normal
circumstances, we are at risk of all kinds of accidents, but now we just expect
them to give us at least a respirator and gloves due to the present
situation."
In the final part of their speech, the workers
of Taras Shahroud technical buildings Company, referring to the announcement of
the reduction of working hours of the employees of government-production
departments of Semnan province said: “According to the decree of the Corona
headquarters, workers are obliged to work with one shift. But from the
beginning of Corona, although Shahroud was one of the cities involved with
Corona, we all had 550 workers working at the same time. At the same time,
the postponement of the payment of wages and insurance claims of the workers of
the technical buildings of Shahroud railway have continued.”
Poverty and deprivation of workers' social
security is on the rise, while article25 of the UDHR, and
the ICCPR, Iran is a signatory to both, emphasizes the right of
individuals to have access to adequate social security in terms of food,
housing, clothing, and so on. Emphasizing social protection services in cases of
unemployment, illness, organ failure, biopsy, aging, or in all other cases
where the person's livelihoods have been lost due to unintentional reasons, but
Violent clashes between security and judicial organs and Iranian workers and
security allegations for the demands of these people are a clear example of
flagrant violation of Human Rights.
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