Following the arrest of members of the Steering Committee of the Vahed Bus Company Trade Union around 3000 workers went on strike demanding their leaders' release, union recognition and improved pay and conditions.
Following the arrest of members of the Steering Committee of the Vahed Bus Company Trade Union around 3000 workers went on strike demanding their leaders' release, union recognition and improved pay and conditions.
At 6am on 22 December 2005 a number of Information Ministry personnel acting under orders from the Tehran prosecutor, a judge named Mortazavi, produced a search warrant at the home of Mr Mansour Ossanlou (the leader of the Steering Committee of the Vahed Bus Company Trade Union). After carrying out a search they arrested Mr Ossanlou and took him to an undisclosed place.