Observer columnist Nick Cohen is furious at the British TUC for its stand on boycotting Israel - and has pulled out of speaking at a TUC event this month. Read his column this week.
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British union leaders call for global unions to adopt BDS position
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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…
Scottish TUC condemns Histadrut, but rejects a complete boycott
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The recently concluded Scottish Trades Union Congress meeting provided a platform for the most extreme anti-Israel and pro-Hamas views — and this in spite of the UNISON report this month calling for continued engagement with the Histadrut. According to this…
The British Trade Union Movement, Israel and Boycotts
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by Ronnie Fraser Over the past thirty years the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and member unions have regularly adopted resolutions containing anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian rhetoric. A whole generation of British left-wing trade union activists has been raised on a diet…
Labour Friends of Israel: Unions should oppose TUC decision to ally with pro-Hamas PSC
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The following is the text of a powerful briefing produced today by Labour Friends of Israel. It effectively challenges the decision by Britain’s Trades Union Congress (TUC) to ally itself closely with an organization - the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC)…
What can trade unions do to aid peace?
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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),…
British TUC to debate proposal for a full boycott of Israeli goods
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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…
Campaigning for Decent Work across Palestine
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‘We have succeeded in reducing the working day by half an hour. From the experience, I realise that big achievements begin by small steps. That was the accumulated knowledge that I have learnt from the TUC project,’ says Saed Zubaidy,…
BDS activists: We will take TUC further - to a full boycott of Israel
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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…
British TUC steps up boycott campaign targetting Israel
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According to this report on the website of UNISON, Britain’s giant public sector union, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has taken action to implement its call last September for a partial boycott of Israeli goods. UNISON writes, “The Palestine Solidarity…