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South African trade unions call for boycott of Israeli apartheid

Joyce Chediac, Workers World
16 June 2010

The South African Transport and
Allied Workers’ Union, refuses to
handle Israeli goods at South
African ports

Adding their voices to the call to boycott goods from Israel are UNITE, the biggest trade union in Britain, and the Swedish Portworkers’ Union, which called a boycott of all Israeli ships and cargo from June 15 through June 24.

The South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union, which refuses to handle Israeli goods at South African ports, called the Swedish boycott “the kind of powerful workers’ action that was used during the fight against the South African apartheid regime and helped bring it down. It must be used again today against this criminal apartheid regime in Israel.”

South African Municipal Workers Union
will "engage every single municipality
to ensure that there are no commercial,
academic, cultural, sporting or other
linkages whatsoever with the Israeli
regime"

The Congress of South African Trade Unions expressed outrage at the May 31 killing of activists by Israeli commandos, and in a statement urged “all South Africans to refuse to buy or handle any goods from Israel or have any dealings with Israeli businesses.” This umbrella group of unions supports “the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to national sovereignty” and demands “the immediate end to the Israeli siege and the illegal occupation of the sovereign territory which has been violently seized from the Palestinian nation.”

Biggest Britain union joins boycott

Congress of South African Trade Unions
urges "all South Africans to refuse to
buy or handle any goods from Israel or
have any dealings with Israeli businesses."

Other labor groups protesting the May 31 Israeli commando raid on the Freedom Flotilla are the International Dockworkers Council, the International Transport Workers Federation, the International Trade Union Confederation, the South African National Union of Mineworkers, the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the British Trade Union Congress. The British University and College Union broke ties with the Histradrut, a Zionist so-called labor organization. UCU spokesperson Tom Hickey said the Histradrut “supported the Israeli assault on civilians in Gaza” and “did not deserve the name of a trade union.”

Source: http://www.workers.org/2010/world/south_african_0624/

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