Interview with Ebrahim Madadi, vice president of the Syndicate of the Workers of Vahed Bus Company, about the Syndicate web site

Question: Mr. Ebrahim Madadi, according to the constitution of the Syndicate of the Workers of Vahed Company, you are in charge of the syndicate when Osanloo is not available. You and Mr. Mansour Osanloo have been together since 2001, when you both formed the board of founders and were trying to reestablish the Syndicate of the Workers of Vahed Company.  Would you please give a short history of the Syndicate’s web site?

Madadi: With greeting to all the dear visitors of the website and hope that Mr. Mansour Osanloo and Gholamreza Gholamhoseini will be free soon, I would like to inform that the idea of the Syndicate’s web site was proposed by Mansour Osanloo, he had the most efforts to re establish the syndicate to improve Vahed’s workers’ situation, and after approval by the other syndicalists, the Syndicate’s web site was launched to increase awareness about the trade unionism advocacy activities in July 2004. After the election of the executive board of the syndicate, the website was kept on going and Mr. Mansour Osanloo repeatedly asked all the members of the executive board and the other members as well as all the activists who were interested in the syndicate activities to write for the web site. In spite of  many up and downs that we faced because of the members’ detentions, imprisonments and dismissals, especially Osanloo’s imprisonment, the website has been continued to be the voice of the Syndicate of the Workers of Vahed Company. This web site is the moral keepsake of Mr. Mansour Osanloo and it will be his memento.

Question: Mr. Madadi, did Mr. Osanloo give his though about the web site when he was in the hospital?

Madadi: Mr. Osanloo is very interested in the web site and he always considers it as the result of his idea and the achievement of the syndicalism movement. He always thinks how to improve it, as long as I know; he feels very high psychological connection to it. It is the duty of the Syndicate of the Workers of Vahed Company to take of it as his keepsake. We hope that all who are faith full to Mr. Mansour Osanloo’s syndicalism’s idea honestly try to guard this website as the moral heritage of the Syndicate of the Workers of Vahed Company and the first web site of the Iranian workers syndicalism’s movement.