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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 PCS
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UK: Union leaders tell supermarkets to boycott settlement products
According to the Morning Star, seven trade union leaders have issued a call on Britain’s supermarkets to cease purchasing products from company’s which benefit from Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. They write: “We note that the Co-operative supermarket pledged to end trade with Israeli agricultural export companies that operate in settlements. We urge all… »
Public Services International supports BDS, apartheid slander on Israel
Public Services International (PSI) is a global trade union federation representing 20 million public sector workers in 150 countries. Its world congress concluded three days ago in Durban, South Africa. Though a search of the PSI website and its special congress site shows nothing about this, there are reports all over the web celebrating the… »
UK: Union leader asserts non-existent ‘right of return’ for Palestinian refugees
Hugh Lanning, the deputy general secretary of the PCS civil servants union, is also the Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). In an article last month for the Communist daily Morning Star, now highlighted on the PSC website, he attacks recent Israeli legislation which he considers to be racist. Fair enough – many of… »
Local union official asks PCS’s Hugh Lanning about his participation in pro-terrorist event
Howard Fuller is the Branch Secretary for the South West Thames Branch of Britain’s PCS union – the union for civil servants in the UK. In an extraordinary open letter published yesterday, he’s asked PCS Deputy General Secretary Hugh Lanning to explain the report we published here on the TULIP website nearly three weeks ago… »
BDS activists: We will take TUC further – to a full boycott of Israel
The anti-Israel activists who got the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) to call for a partial boycott of goods from the Jewish state are not resting on their laurels. They have a plan and it calls for getting the British trade union movement to back a full boycott of Israel. They see the boycott of… »
UK unions back anti-Israel vigil
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has called for a vigil outside the Israeli embassy in London on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of Operation Cast Lead. The vigil will call for “an end to Israel’s siege on Gaza, and for Israeli war criminals to be brought to justice”. It will not, apparently, call for an… »
British unions to remember Holocaust
Britain’s Community trade union, whose General Secretary Michael Leahy OBE is one of the founders of TULIP, has issued the following statement: Community supports Holocaust Memorial Day, the international day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust and other genocides. Community affirms the following Statement of Commitment: We recognise that the Holocaust shook the… »
British civil service union head blogs from Palestine
Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the UK’s Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), is currently visiting Palestine as part of a delegation hosted by the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions. He is blogging every day about his experiences. Serwotka has been all over the West Bank, but has also dipped into Israel for, among… »