Strike - Iran - Bus strike: for workers and against empire
Tehran,Iran -Socialistworker, (London,UK), by Naz Massoumi & Peyman Jafari -18 Feb 2006: -- A courageous strike in Tehran has attracted the world’s attention... Trade unionists and activists across the world are calling for the immediate release of hundreds of bus workers being held in Iran’s capital Tehran... Workers employed by the United Bus Company of Tehran (Sharekat-e Vahed) have been arrested and detained in Evin prison over the last week in an attempt to prevent a strike... The workers are demanding a pay rise, collective bargaining, recognition of their union and the release of their union’s president... On 22 December last year, 12 leading members of the Union of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company were arrested following their fight for better pay and working conditions... Three days later 3,000 bus workers staged a walkout in protest. Police responded by making further arrests...
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