The three million member Swedish Cooperative Union (Kooperativa förbundet - KF) has rejected calls for a boycott of Israeli products. The union, founded in 1899, is “historically closely tied to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, LO, and to the Swedish…
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Union-owned Swedish newspaper spreads blood libel against Jews
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Aftonbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden, owned by the country’s national trade union center (LO) and editorially controlled by them. It is also the largest circulation newspaper in the country, with more than a million readers. And this week…
Local and int’l pressure forces employer to recognize Palestinian workers’ rights
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The Israeli NGO Kav LaOved reports on an extraordinary victory for Palestinian workers who are employed in a factory based in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. It’s a story of how Palestinian workers teamed up with Kav…