Worker House General Secretary’s Meeting with the Deputy
General Secretary of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Tehran
Worker House’s Relation with European Union and Germany
According to ILANA, Islamic
Republic’s Labor News-Agency, on Saturday, April 13, 2014, Ali Reza Mahjob,
General Secretary of the Iranian Worker House (center for the government
sanctioned labor organizations), met with Ralf Mutzenich, Deputy General
Secretary of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) at the Worker House in
Tehran. While emphasizing the Worker House organization’s support for the
“Rouhani government’s general policies”, during the meeting Mahjob described
differences in views between the Worker House organizations and the Rouhani
government to be “minimal”, and considered “the Rouhani government’s
intention….. in the framework of the health insurance plan….., as a prelude for
social insurance……, and was hopeful regarding the unemployment insurance for the
unemployed in the near future.” Rouhani government is planning to transfer the
health funds of the Social Security Organization to the Ministry of Health, and
workers are strongly opposed to it. The Social Security Organizations’ funds
and properties belong to the workers and are the workers’ life-time savings.
Iranian Government’s Request from
IMF for Holding Training Sessions in Iran
According to the Mehr
News-Agency, a high-ranking delegation from Iran ,
which included the Iran ’s Director
of the Central Bank and Iran ’s
Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, attended the International Monetary
Fund’s spring meeting in the United
States . During his trip to the United
States, Iran’s Director of Central Bank met with Christine Lagarde, Director of
the International Monetary Fund and provided
explanations regarding “country’s economic conditions,…., policies
governing the Targeting of the Subsidies,……, and especially, the Iranian
President’s economic policies and views.” During the meeting, Director of the Iranian Central Bank requested
Christine Lagarde, that the International Monetary Fund hold “regional training
sessions in Tehran”; Christine Lagarde agreed to his request. (Cutting of the
subsidies from energy - gasoline, electricity, gas….- food items, other essential
items and medicine is referred to as the Targeting of the Subsidies Program by
the Iranian government)
