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Tishwash: Angry protesters compare salaries to presidencies, threaten sit-in in Baghdad
Hundreds of employees of Iraqi state departments and institutions demonstrated today, Saturday, in front of the fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad, demanding an amendment to the salary scale.
Employee Wissam Ahmed told Shafak News Agency, "We went out today to demand that the government and parliament amend the salary scale and address the differences in classes for state employees."
He added, "There is inequality and injustice in employees' salaries," indicating that "an employee in the Council of Ministers, Parliament, and the three presidencies receives a salary of 3 million dinars per month, while someone of the same rank in another ministry receives only 500,000 dinars.