Vahed Workers Syndicate Asks ITF to File Complaint at ILO Session

Iran Labor Report

Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Bus Workers Syndicate, in a letter to ITF has asked for filing a complaint against Islamic Republic of Iran in the coming session of ILO for its noncompliance with ILO regulations. The text of the message reads as follows:

From: Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Workers Syndicate

To: International Transportation Federation ITF

Subject: Complaint by Vahed Workers Syndicate on Non-Implementation of Basic Working Regulations especially Conventions 87 and 98 by the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Security

We are asking your distinguished international labor institution to introduce and pursue the complaint by the Vahed Workers Syndicate as a member of ITF on non-implementation of the basic working regulations especially conventions 87 and 98 in Islamic Republic of Iran in the annual session of ILO.

Given the fifty year history of membership of our country in ILO, the obligation of the countries officials to implement these regulations and given the nonconformity with these regulations, especially the right to form independent trade unions by the Islamic Republic of Iran, the individuals sent to the convention as representatives of Iranian workers are not considered as the true representatives of millions of Iranian workers and can not receive credentials from that session.

For example, these representatives have not shown any cooperation and support in the course of attacks and expulsions of Vahed Syndicate members in the past years including those of Ebrahim Madadi, Hassan Saeedi, Hossein Karimi Sabzevari, Nasser Moharamzadeh, Vahid Fereidouni, Ali Nouryani, Ms. Farahnaz Shiri and incarceration of Reza Shahabi as well as violation of rights of Akbar Pirhadi and Hassan Karimi.

They have even worked along side state and security officials against Vahed Syndicate and its members.

Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Workers Syndicate
May 2013