Thursday 19 February 2009

Sign the petition: South African and Australian Dock Workers Boycotting Israeli Cargo

Comrades,

Workers from the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) in Durban, and Western Australian dock worker members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), are refusing to handle Israeli cargo.

This is a brave and principled response to the Israeli massacre in Gaza, and I would urge you to sign the petition, and get others to do so as well.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has called on "other workers and unions to follow suit and to do all that is necessary to ensure that they boycott all goods to and from Israel until Palestine is free.”

This is an issue that we should all raise in our union branches, and another area to push for a concerted working class response to imperial aggression.

Please sign the petition at: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/LaborforPalestine

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