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Trade union leaders from three continents have announced the launch of a new global movement "to challenge the apologists for Hamas and Hizbollah in the labour movement" and to fight for a two-state solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The movement is called TULIP - Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine. [Read more]TULIP Everywhere
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British TUC likely to push for full Israel boycott at this year’s conference
From today’s Jewish Chronicle:
“The Trades Union Congress is expected to call on its members at its annual conference to strengthen opposition to Israel by extending boycotts and encouraging disinvestment. A motion on Israel and the Palestinians, backed by the GMB, the Fire Brigades’ Union, the Public and Commercial Services Union and the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association,… »
COSATU backs protests against Israel – as part of WFTU actions
South African unions are planning a big anti-Israel protest march on the eve of this year’s Jewish High Holidays.
The protest march is in support of the call for global action by the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) which is widely known as the Stalinist International, dominated by old-style communist unions and unions from authoritarian… »
Jordanian unions red light King’s Palestine peace stance
Unions in Jordan have strongly condemned the king’s participation in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
They have warned that the talks are a threat to Jordanian sovereignty saying Palestinians could be deported to Jordan and change the character of the Kingdom.
The Jordanian trade unions on Saturday rejected the country’s participation in the… »
New law on Palestinian worker rights just cosmetic
Recent amendments to Lebanese law grant work permits to Palestinians in the private sector, and some welfare benefits, and are an important step in the right direction, according to the UN’s agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), but many Palestinians say they fall short of what they had hoped for.
The new law,… »
USA: Jewish labor leaders support building of Muslim community centre in Manhattan
On August 16, 2010, Stuart Appelbaum and Martin Schwartz, President and Executive Director, respectively, of the Jewish Labor Committee, issued a statement in support of the planned Cordoba Initiative, a Muslim community center to be built a few blocks from the site of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. Since the announcement of the… »
What can trade unions do to aid peace?
That’s the title Trade Union Friends of Israel (TUFI) have given to their annual fringe meeting at the UK Trades Union Congress this year.
Invited guest speakers include Brendan Barber (TUC general secretary), Avital Shapira-Shabirow (Histadrut head of international department), Paul Usiskin (UK Friends of the Abraham Fund Initiatives), Alon Toth-Snir (Israeli deputy ambassador to the… »
Unionists to disrupt Netanyahu visit to DC
Trade unionists are preparing to disrupt Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Washington in September for the direct negotiation talks with the Palestinians.
No this is not a story about anti-Israel union activists promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
This is a report on a long-running dispute by Israel’s Foreign Ministry workers, campaigning for better pay and conditions.
Already… »
International transport workers federation adopts balanced resolution on Israel/Palestine
This shouldn’t be news, but it is.
In a world where trade unions can call for boycotts targetting the Jewish state, threaten to cut off relations with its trade union movement (the Histadrut) and so on, a global union federation that does none of this deserves recognition.
At its 42nd Congress held in Mexico City earlier this… »
Israeli journalist union protests detention of Gambian journalist
Immigration authorities in Israel should urgently review the detention order against Bubacar Ceesay, who claimed asylum when he entered the country without travel documents last year but has been in detention ever since.
Ceesay says he was arrested and tortured in The Gambia after he had published a story on corruption in the Independent newspaper. He… »
British TUC to debate proposal for a full boycott of Israeli goods
The Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) has proposed a resolution to be debated at next month’s annual conference of the British Trades Union Congress calling for a full boycott of Israeli goods.
At last year’s conference, the TUC voted in support of a boycott of goods produced in the Jewish settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories but… »