Tag Archive for BDS

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…

Leading Black trade unionist expresses ‘disgust and dismay’ at misuse of her name by pro-BDS campaigners

Clayola Brown, the national president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute — a leading organization for Black trade unionists in the United States — has sent this email message to “Labor for Palestine”: It is with disgust and dismay that…

COSATU delegation to join the Gaza Freedom March!

The South African trade union national centre, COSATU, has just released this media statement. This new years eve, 31 December 2009, thousands of people and activists from all over the world will gather in Gaza for a historic march against…