Palestine

  • Pickets Challenge Labor to Find Solidarity with Palestinians

    Fifty activists picketed an awards dinner June 13, telling New York state AFL-CIO head Denis Hughes his support for investments in Israel betrays basic principles of labor solidarity.

  • Bay Area Dockworkers Answer Palestinian Call for Solidarity

    Bay Area dockworkers refused to cross a picket line early Sunday, leaving a ship loaded with cargo from Israel floating offshore.

  • Growing Labor Support for Palestine Faces Stiff Opposition in the U.S.
    Paul Abowd
    Jan 22 2010 - 10:47am

    Seizing on outrage over the Gaza bombardment and siege, a small but growing band of U.S. unionists are mobilizing behind a global call to pressure Israel with a boycott, divestment, and sanctions.

  • Palestinian Trade Union Headquarters Targeted

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    The Gaza Strip is a difficult place to hold down a job, and recent violence against the main Palestinian union federation only worsened the lot of workers there. One and a half million Palestinians live in Gaza under an Israeli economic siege that has closed borders and ports, and restricted access to water, electricity, and basic goods. The resulting conditions have been dire. According to the UN Relief Works Association, unemployment and poverty rates have soared to 80 percent since the economic blockade ramped up three years ago.

    Conditions deteriorated even further when Israel initiated military raids in late February, killing more than 100 civilians, a third of them children.

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    Wed, 04/30/2008 - 10:59pm