Campaign: Trade union solidarity

As Israel’s decades-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid continues to escalate its ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing, a new wave of...

• Blog

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. The nonviolent, anti-racist BDS movement upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity. BDS campaigns are driven by the moral imperative to do no harm, and to ensure the companies, institutions, and governments we work for or can influence are not contributing to the denial of the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people.

• Toolkit

In response to the call from Palestinian trade unions to escalate pressure to end complicity in Israel’s genocide and apartheid, three major trade union federations representing over 80 trade union affiliates across the islands of Ireland and Britain announced support for workplace actions this Thursday 14 May, coinciding with the 78th anniversary of Nakba.

• Action Alert

  The BDS movement welcomes the announcement of the International Alliance of App-Based Transport Workers (IAAWT), representing 100,000...

• BNC Statement

Ahead of Kommunal’s Congress, Palestinians Urge Endorsement of BDS Call to End Complicity in Israeli Apartheid and Genocide

• BNC Statement

Letter to Swedish IF Metall Trade Union from Palestinian Trade Unions and Civil Society

• Statement

LO’s draft resolution on Palestine misses this fundamental duty to end complicity. Instead, it repeats that “LO's overall goal in the region is to strengthen the situation of the Palestinians in general and Palestinian civil society and the trade union movement in particular.”

• Open Letter

May 1st is a day of internationalist solidarity, where we remind ourselves that an injury to one is an injury to all. The US-Israeli genocide and global complicity have not only exterminated tens of thousands of Palestinians and continue to kill Palestinian workers merely for continuing to do their jobs as medical personnel, journalists, rescue workers, and humanitarian workers.

• Action Alert

By declaring its unequivocal condemnation of Israel’s ongoing genocide and taking a stand for justice, INTO has once again demonstrated that meaningful solidarity requires action — not only words.

• Statement

Five trade unions representing staff at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) demand their institution sever ALL institutional and corporate ties with apartheid Israel.

• Update