November 07, 2007

 From: Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran and Suburban Bus Company, Vahed
To: ITUC Middle East and North African Coordinating Committee
Dear colleagues,

The Syndicaye Sherkat-e Vahed once again expresses its deep appreciations to our trade union brothers and sisters in the Middle East and North Africa , who expressed their solidarity to Mansour Osaloo and Ebrahim Madadi, the Chairperson and the Vice President of our union after his arrest in July 2007. Your messages of support posted on our website and the ITF website in English, Arabic and Farsi , were most encouraging and empowered us to keep our unity in the times of difficulties.

As you know, in our statement , we strongly condemned the unfair verdicts to Mansour Osaloo and Ebrahim Madadi on 3 November 2007 ,  and requested all the international trade union organisations to react seriously to this unfair and anti-workers ruling globally.

We address this special message to you as we learnt that the annual meeting of the Coordinating Committtee of the ITUC affiliates in the Middle East and North African would be held in Brussels next week. We sincerely hope that our brothers and sisters from the region will be on the forefront in expressing their solidarity towards the Syndicaye Sherkat-e Vahed and continue to their Solidarity Campaign globally for the immediate and unconditional release of Mansour Osanloo and Ebrahim Madadi.
With hope for peace and justice in the world
Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran and Suburban Bus Company, Vahed