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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 NORWAY
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Norway: Unions ask gov’t to boycott Jerusalem WHO conference
Another example of unions playing an unhelpful… »
Norway: Unions publish anti-Israel pamphlet
More bad news from the Norwegian labour… »
Norway: Union members vote AGAINST boycott of Israel
This is good news – and corrects a earlier study we… »
Norway: Union leader calls Histadrut an ‘apartheid’ union, claims it has no Arab members
This is extraordinary stuff – a call by a major figure in the Norwegian labour movement for a ban on the Histadrut on the grounds that it has no Arab members. The level of ignorance here is truly… »
Palestinian unions win prestigious international trade union award
We’ve just learned that the Norwegian union Industri Energi has given out this year’s Arthur Svensson International Award for Union Rights to Shaher Sae’d, Secretary General of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU). According to the union, “in 2010, the award was granted to Wellington Chibebe, Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of… »
Norway: Unions put Palestinian refugees at the center of May Day this year
The major Norwegian trade union centre LO has made the plight of Palestinian refugees the theme of this year’s annual event. The union website explicitly makes reference to a Palestinian ‘right of return’ – which means in practice the elimination of a Jewish state in Israel. The “Norway, Israel and the Jews” blog has had… »
Norway: Union calls for comprehensive boycott of Israel, break with Histadrut
One of Norway’s largest and most important unions, EL&IT, has issued the strongest call yet for boycotts and sanctions targetting the Jewish state, according to this report. The resolution, quoted in full in the story, calls for the Norwegian national trade union center LO to break all relations with the Israeli national trade union center… »
Norway: Dockers to blockade Israeli ships
Reports are beginning to come in of one of the first examples of a trade union responding to the call by some Palestinian unions (and the World Federation of Trade Unions) to refuse to load and unload Israeli ships. Norwegian dockers seem to be among the very first to heed this call. (There are also… »
Norway: Trade unionist calls for “more nuanced debate on Israel”
In what one commentator is calling the possible beginning of a thaw between Norwegian trade unionists and Israel, an article in a union magazine says that the national trade union center (LO) “has painted a negative picture of Israel. Israel is a great country with many great people. I wish we could have a more… »