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Iranian Resistance urges support for Tehran bus drivers strike |
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Sunday, 25 December 2005 |
 NCRI - The Iranian Resistance urged residents of Tehran, and in particular
workers and wage-earners, to support the strike of Tehran bus drivers
and their just demands. The Resistance called on all workers and
residents in Tehran to resist the ploys and repressive measures
undertaken by the clerical regime to suppress the protest.
Workers at Tehran's Sherkat Vahed (Tehran's bus company) have for years
suffered from economic hardships, low wages, difficult working
conditions, and lack of minimum professional bonuses as a consequence
of the Iranian regime's repressive policies. The situation has
deteriorated considerably for bus drivers in recent months, especially
after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken office as the new president of the
clerical regime.
Authorities in the Iranian regime have attempted in recent months to
sow division within the ranks of the company's workers and have delayed
responding to their just demands, held back on wage payments, and
attempted to prevent workers' protests and strikes.
The regime's repressive security forces have in recent weeks arrested a
number of the workers. Some of those arrested are being held in Evin
prison in Tehran and others at the Intelligence Ministry prison.
Authorities in the regime have also shut down the Internet website
belonging to the workers and actively prevent the formation of any
independent workers union or association.
Anti-labor councils called Islamic Workers Councils form part of the
repressive apparatus of the clerical regime against workers. Workers
Houses are also under the control of such councils.
The Iranian Resistance calls on labor unions and international
advocates of workers' rights to condemn the Iranian regime's anti-labor
and repressive policies. The Resistance also calls on the International
Labor Organization to review the situation of Iranian workers in its
next conference in Geneva.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 25, 2005 |
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