The pro-Hamas Palestine Solidarity Campaign was supposed to be holding its Trade Union Conference this weekend, as we reported last week. But now they’ve decided to postpone it until next year. Here’s the explanation from their website: Important announcement: postponement of…
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UK: Pro-Hamas campaigners to hold “trade union conference” in London
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The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which supports Hamas and whose logo shows a map of Israel and Palestine with one of those countries, erased is calling a trade union conference in London in another 9 days. Ironically, the only trade union…
What happened at the Community union conference: An eyewitness account
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by Eric Lee Yesterday, I was in Southport attending the conference of the Community trade union. Community is one the smaller unions in Britain and is merger of two unions that represented declining manufacturing sectors - textiles and steel. But…
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…
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)…
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…
UK unions back anti-Israel vigil
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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…
COSATU hails Goldstone report, praises TUC for boycott decision
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The following was published on 8 October on the website of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). COSATU fully supports the report by UN-appointed South African jurist Richard Goldstone on the crimes committed by Israel in Operation Cast…