Happy May First, International Labor Day

The Syndicate of the Workers of Tehran and Suburban Bus Vahed Company congratulates the International Labor Day to our hardworking colleagues at Vahed Company and all the workers in Iran and around the world.

As an international tradition, in all countries, workers express their demands and protests through the observances of International Labor Day. Governments in all the countries are aware of the importance and sensitivity of the International Labor Day, and they respect it by fixing May First as a national holiday and celebrating it in public.

In Iran, with a more than a century syndicalism history, started during civil revolution and continued during the oil nationalizing and the recent revolution, sorrowfully, workers are deprived of their legitimate rights to be organized within the independent labor syndicates, despite the fact that there is any legal obstructions, and this is not the honor for a country which is a member of ILO for more than half a century.

The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburban Bus Vahed Company is appealing authorities of three governance powers to end repressing and preventing syndicalism activities, release Mr. Mansour Osanloo, the president of the Executive Board of the Syndicate, and take proper measures to return the members of the Syndicate of Vahed to their jobs.

The Syndicate of Workers of Vahed Company supports all the rights seeking actions of workers in Iran and all around the world, and thanks all the workers, global trade unions, including International Trade Unions Confederation (ITUC) and the International Transport’s Workers Federation (ITF), and all the people who are seeking democracy, justice and peace for their collaboration to defend our rights.

With hope of holding independent labor syndicates, social justice and global absolute peace

Decent Life and Labor Syndicate Are Workers’ Absolute Rights

Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburban Bus Vahed Company

April 30, 2008