Iran
Mansour Osanloo, president of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company in Iran was last week sentenced to five years in prison, according to the International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI), based in Canada.
On 28 May, a Tehran “revolutionary court” sentenced Osanloo to four years imprisonment for‚ “acting against national security‚” and one year for “propaganda against the system”. According to Osanloo’s lawyer, the verdict has been given on the phone, but no official announcement has yet been made. Osanloo and his lawyers will have 20 days to appeal the verdict.
Other worker activists continue to be imprisoned in Iran. Mahmoud Salehi, the former President of the Bakery Workers’ Association of the City of Saqez and a well-known labour activist in Iran, reported last week that his kidney problem was becoming extremely painful and his blood pressure has fallen considerably. Salehi was imprisoned in April following the final verdict on his May Day 2004 case.
• Letters of protest can be sent via the IASWI website. http://www.workers-iran.org/
Solidarity with Iraqi workers. A website for trade unionists in Scotland supporting workers in Iraq (including those currently unemployed) and all the various forms of organised labour. There are stalls most Saturdays at Noon outside Dunnes on Sauchiehall Street - to check stall is going ahead e-mail: iraqunionsolidarityscotland@yahoo.co.uk or phone Mobile: 07979 421 475. For extensive news , reports and links on Iraqi workers organisations see http://www.iraqunionsolidarity.org
IRAQ UNION SOLIDARITY (SCOTLAND) CONSTITUTION
1) The name of the organisation is Iraq Union Solidarity (Scotland) (IUS(S)).
2) IUS(S) is the Scottish component of the national Iraq Union Solidarity (IUS) campaign.
3) The aims of IUS(S) are the same as those of IUS, save that IUS(S) will pursue those aims specifically in Scotland.
4) The aims of IUS(S) are to build support for Iraqi trade unions amongst trade union organisations and individual trade unionists in Scotland.
5) To this end, IUS(S) will: produce and circulate publicity material concerning Iraqi trade unions; organise public meetings; provide speakers for the meetings of other organisations; raise funds for the TUC Aid Iraq Appeal; circulate model motions in support of Iraqi trade unions; engage in other activities consistent with the overall aims of IUS(S).
6) Membership of IUS(S) is open to individuals and organisations.
7) Individual membership of IUS(S) costs £5.00 per year.
8) Affiliation by trade union branches to IUS(S) costs £5.00 per year.
9) All monies in excess of £5.00 received from individuals and/or affiliates are to be paid into the TUC Aid Iraq Appeal.
10) Meetings of IUS(S) take place at least once a month (apart from during the months of July and December).
11) Meetings are open to all individual members and to one delegate per affiliated organisation.
12) All individual members and affiliates receive at least one week’s notice of an IUS(S) meeting.
13) The date/time/place of each IUS(S) meeting is decided by the preceding meeting.
14) IUS(S) has the following office-bearers: chair, secretary, convenor, treasurer, media spokeperson.
15) Office bearers are elected at the IUS(S) Annual General Meeting, to be held in February of each year.
16) IUS(S) may be dissolved by a vote in favour of dissolution by at least two thirds of its individual and affiliated members.
17) Any funds in the IUS(S) bank account in the event of dissolution of IUS(S) will be handed over to the TUC Aid Iraq Appeal.
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Link to Support material
Support Material
Introductory leaflet Affiliation form
Letter to trade union branches (etc) inviting them to affiliate Model motion for trade union branches Briefing on the new trade unions in Iraq
Briefing on students' organizations in Iraq
Petition - support Iraqi workers
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Hadi Never Died: Hadi Saleh and the Iraqi Trade Unions
After the fall of Saddam, Hadi Saleh, the international officer of the Iraqi trade union movement, embodied a new era for free and independent trade unionism in Iraq. In January 2005 he was tortured and murdered by assassins in his Baghdad home. This book is both a tribute to Hadi and a fascinating history of Iraqi trade unionism. It includes many inspiring examples of British and international solidarity with Iraqi trade unions as they struggle to establish the freedom we take for granted. All profits from sales will go to the TUC Aid for Iraq Appeal.
RRP: £ 10.00
http://www.tuc.org.uk/publications/viewPub.cfm?frmPubID=479
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Educational Price:
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PUBLIC MEETING
Solidarity with Iraqi Workers
PUBLIC MEETING
February 6th -7.30 PM STUC Building
Speaker: Mary Senior : STUC Assistant General Secretary
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