The huge factory, which once had more than 3,000 workers, now has 1,030 worried workers.
Over the past 20 years, Assad Bey has spent $ 1.5 billion on the Al-Ahwaz’s Haft Tepe quarry, and Gurbanali Farrukhzad has destroyed a total of $ 2 billion in national investment at the Tabriz Mashinsazi Plant, dragging these two powerful industrial complexes into the abyss.
The interactions related to the transfer of the country’s large and important factories to the private sector proved that this statement is absolutely and one hundred percent true; Privatization is not only the enemy of the Iranian workers but also the main enemy of production; Wherever the incompetent and unqualified private sector is exposed to national production and mother factories, everything is in the black; Workers have not been paid for months; Job security is endangered and the level of production has been reduced to a minimum.
The current state of the country’s mother industries, which once envied all neighboring countries, is a clear testament to the inefficiency of privatization, or intimacy, which ultimately was nothing more than a gift of national wealth to those close to the blocs of political power. There are many examples; Leaving Haft Tappeh and Hepco, we come to the giant of Iranian industrial machinery production, which was once the giant of machinery production in the Middle East: Tabriz Mashinsazi Building.
Today, this factory is undecided and almost bankrupt, after trying to transfer in the 90’s, and after being transferred at a very low price to a person named “Ghorban Ali Farrokhzad” or as the representative of Tabriz says “Mesh Ghorban Ali”!
According to the documents, Tabriz Mashinsazi Building was in its peak days in 1392 and 1393. In 1392, about 92% of the production program, which was equivalent to 1312 units, ie about 1205 units were sold. In 1993, out of 1165 production programs, it was able to produce 1065 devices and tools, which shows a figure of about 91%, which accounted for about 46% of the total sales of the company’s products in 1993 to export sales. During these years, the production of Tabriz Machinery proceeded according to the plans until the specifications of the advertisement for the auction of Tabriz Machinery shares were published in 1394.
Prior to that, machine building was managed under the auspices of the Industrial Development and Renovation Organization of Iran. Finally, according to the workers, the board of directors was removed from the same year and the new board of directors was selected by the Privatization Organization, and finally, in 1397, it was transferred to the private sector at a price of 687 billion Tomans. Meanwhile, Puri Hosseini, the head of the private organization at the time, said: The shares of Tabriz Mashinsazi Company and Tabriz Mashinsazi Foundry, along with the properties located in the Ilgoli area of Tabriz, were transferred to the real private sector by the Privatization Organization on behalf of the Steel Employees Pension Fund.
According to Ahmad Alireza Beigi (representative of the people of Tabriz in the parliament), the sale of shares of Tabriz Mashinsazi in 1397 took place based on the pricing of 1394. Meanwhile, the price of real estate, innovations and machinery has increased during this period.
But there are many violations of this transfer. Ghorban Ali did not have the necessary adequacy or the required qualifications; In addition, he, like the owner of Haft Tappeh, is a currency violator; According to the documents, Ghorban Ali Farrokhzad receives 446 million and fifty thousand and 332 dollars of government currency of 4 thousand and 200 Tomans from the Central Bank and sells 201 million dollars of these currencies in the open market and with the money he earns, he buys Tabriz Machine Building from the government.
The head of the Law on Islamic Labor Councils of East Azerbaijan, Cengiz Gasimi, spoke about the concerns of workers:
“Now Farrukhzad has been in prison for 13 months for violations of the law. But even after his arrest, the situation in the quarry was not good. The quarry does not have a factor manager, no board, the state did not support the quarry, but the Fulad Industry Quarter appointed two heads to the quarry. Workers are paid, but it is difficult to produce, and the quarry operates at 30 percent capacity. At one time, the continents (parts) used to produce 45 tons of iron a month, but now it is less than 15 tons.”
Gasimi added: “The demands of theMashinsazi workers are to clarify the condition and ownership of the quarry, to create a factor manager and management board, and the state will provide cash assistance in obtaining raw materials. This work is the lifeblood of reviving the Mashinsazi. ”
