He said that the Transport Industry Trade Union like the Government Employees' Union, the Teachers Trade Union and the Construction Workers' Union is being harshly suppressed by the authorities.

He accused the authorities of getting frantic in their moves to destroy the Transport Industry Trade Union for the mere reason that the Freight Workers' Solidarity is affiliated to it and cracking down upon democratic forces by retrogressively revising various kinds of laws and mobilizing all power machines including the prosecution and police.

This reality compels the trade union to come out in actions, he held, declaring that the organization would call a general strike in April to achieve democracy and defend the trade union and thus protect the workers' right to existence.