The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), and labor activists around the world are demanding the release Mansour Osanloo, President of the Tehran Bus Workers’ Union, and Mahmoud Salehi, a founding member of the Saqez Bakery Workers’ Association and of the Coordinating Committee to Form Workers’ Organisations. Salehi was arrested last April and Osanloo in July in a major effort by the Iranian government to squelch the labor movement in Iran. Reports indicate that both men are in ill health. On Thursday August 9th, trade union activists in Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Iran, Finland, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Trinidad, the USA (including Chicago) and Yemen, held rally's demanding the release of Osanloo & ...