Workers managed to intervene in the ‘official’ demonstration and gatherings of May 1st in Tehran  .
The workers booed the ‘pro  reformist’ of government workers organisations and
responded  by organising their independent demonstrations after the official gatherings with slogans such
as
: ‘incompetent minister , Resign! Resign!’ ‘government , parliament stop your slogans, act’,
 ‘End  contract work’, ‘decent wage’ …

Many teachers and student activists joined the protests. Security forces tried to stop the protests by they were
 faced with louder and more radical slogans by workers who shouted : ” death to the supporters of capitalists’.
The ensuing street battles stopped traffic in one of the main streets in central Tehran (Taleghani Ave)
As the protests moved to adjacent streets at around 11 am Tehran time, civilian and
Military security forces intervened to arrest known labour activists. Mansour Ossanlou (present of Tehran Vahed Bus
workers)  was briefly arrested and was only released after protests and  interventions by demonstrators and  passers by.
 Yagoub Salimi of the Vahed Bus company was also arrested and is currently in custody. Subsequently thirty workers
from Vahed Bus company staged a sit in outside Tehran prosecutor’s office demanding the release of  fellow worker.