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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 ITUC
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Annual survey of violations of trade union rights: What it tells us about Israel and Palestine
The International Trade Union Confederation’s annual survey of violations of trade union rights is a must-read for all trade unionists. This year’s report is no exception. Though it highlights very severe violations around the world (including 90 murders of trade unionists, the majority of those in Colombia), it also focusses attention on violations of workers’… »
British union leaders call for global unions to adopt BDS position
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has finally published the statement of a delegation of a half dozen British trade union leaders representing five trade unions (Unite, RMT, TSSA, PCS, and Napo). The trade unionists involved were: Gerry Doherty – General Secretary TSSA; Simon Dubbins – Director International Department, UNITE the Union; Garry Hassell – Executive RMT; Shaun… »
TULIP 24 June event in London cancelled
Michael Sommer, the leader of the German DGB and president of the International Trade Union Confederation, has had to cancel his planned 24 June visit to London. As a result, the TULIP event that had been scheduled to take place on that day in the House of Commons has been cancelled. We hope to set… »
World’s unions reject boycotts, embrace Israeli-Palestinian cooperation
The international trade union movement has just delivered a stinging rebuff to advocates of the campaign to boycott Israel. At its second world congress which just concluded in Vancouver, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) rejected calls to support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign targetting the Jewish state. A vehemently anti-Israel resolution submitted… »
ITUC meets Palestinian Authority, and Palestinian and Israeli union affiliates
In a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on 16 February, ITUC General Secretary Guy Ryder discussed the deep economic problems confronting Palestinians, and the government’s plans to tackle a series of labour issues including vocational training, employment services, occupational health and safety and labour inspection. Meet with PGFTU leader Shaher Sae’d… »
International trade union centre welcomes Histadrut decision to organise migrant workers
The international trade union movement has welcomed the decision by the Israeli national trade union centre, The Histadrut, to begin a campaign to organise migrant workers .’ Guy Ryder, the International Trade Union Confederation’s General Secretary, has just posted a report on the ITUC website complimenting the Histadrut on its decision to allow full membership… »
ITUC condemns Israel’s settlement expansion
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has today condemned the decision of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to expand the Gilo settlement south of Jerusalem, on land annexed by Israel in 1967, as illegal and a further threat to prospects for peace. Widespread international criticism has followed the announcement that a further 900 dwellings… »
Strike by workers at UN agency for Palestinian refugees
More than 16,000 employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) held a one-day strike on Tuesday (Nov 17 2009) in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to demand better pay, their union said. A further 14,000 observed a two-hour stoppage in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, said Adel Eid, who… »
UNRWA criticises worker unions ahead of regional work stoppage
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on Monday criticised a workers’ union decision to stage work stoppages today, calling on staff not to deny refugees access to services, the Jordan Times reports today. Staff unions in the agency’s five fields of operation (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza… »
UNRWA Palestinian refugee agency hit by more industrial disputes
Union members working for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) are threatening to re-ignite mass protests in the coming week in the agency’s five fields of operation (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank). The latest protests are part of an on-going dispute which has… »