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World unions launch Osanloo fightback
11 July 2007
The international trade union movement has moved quickly to force the Iranian Government to secure the release of Mansour Osanloo, the trade union leader who was last night assaulted and snatched from a bus by men believed to be state security agents.
Osanloo, the leader of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed), has resisted two years of victimisation, violence and intimidation designed to crush the union. Just last month he travelled to the UK and Brussels to brief audiences of trade unionists on the struggle he and his colleagues have sustained.
Recognising the need to act quickly to secure his release the ITF and ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) have taken the following action to bring pressure on the Iranian Government.
· They have jointly written to President Ahmadinejad, protesting against the attack.
· They have asked ILO (International Labour Organization) Director General Juan Somavia to help free Osanloo. ILO Executive Director Kari Tapiola today raised the matter with the Iranian Labour Attaché in Geneva.
· They have added this latest attack to their complaint to the ILO’s Committee on Freedom of Association against the Government of Iran.
· They have promised to mobilise trade unions internationally to shame the Government of Iran if Osanloo is not released today.
ITF General Secretary David Cockroft stated: “Three weeks ago we were applauding Mansour. One week ago we were successfully campaigning to have his deputy released from another unjustified arrest. This week we are profoundly worried about his physical safety and want to see Mansour freed and among his friends and family as quickly as possible.”
“We utterly condemn this latest cowardly mob attack on our friend and colleague, and urge the Government of Iran to wake up and deal with the elements within that have pulled off this latest act of repression.”
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