TOP IRANIAN UNION LEADER JAILED BY REGIME - INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED - online action

[Omaha Steve]

TOP IRANIAN UNION LEADER JAILED BY REGIME - INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED

Last winter, the Iranian capital city of Tehran was practically shut down by
striking bus drivers. The reaction of the regime was swift and brutal --
hundreds of workers were arrested in an attempt to break their union. The
union leader, Mansour Osanloo, was jailed for 8 months and finally released on
bail -- but last Sunday was arrested again while on his way to the Labour
Ministry. Osanloo was verbally and physically assaulted, threatened with a
gun, and driven away by plain-clothes police.

Unions around the world are reacting, demanding that the Iranian government
release Osanloo immediately.



Please add your voice to this mounting wave of international protest - go here:

http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=167

In addition, we'd like to you consider downloading and printing out an offline
version of this campaign, here:

http://www.labourstart.org/freemansour.pdf

You can make copies of this page and take it to meetings, signing up people
offline.

Working together, we can turn this into the biggest online campaign LabourStart
has ever run -- and let's send a loud and clear message to Tehran that workers'
rights are human rights, and must be respected everywhere.

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