TRADE UNION FRIENDS OF PALESTINE PRESENTATION CONGRESS GLOBAL SOLIDARITY

TRADE UNION FRIENDS OF PALESTINE

PRESENTATION

CONGRESS GLOBAL SOLIDARITY

PRESENTATION

• BACKGROUND TO TUFP

• VISIT TO PALESTINE

• BOYCOTT DIVESTMENT & SANCTIONS CAMPAIGN

• TUFP ACTIONS

• CONGRESS ACTIONS

Trade Union Friends of Palestine


BACKGROUND

• OUR AWARENESS OF THE REALITIES OF OCCUPATION,

• COMMITMENT TO UPHOLDING THE CORE TRADE UNION VALUES OF DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS, OPPOSING INJUSTICE AND RECOGNITION OF INTERNATIONAL WORKING CLASS UNITY AND SOLIDARITY


TUFP

• FOLLOWING THE 2005 BIENNIAL DELEGATE CONFERENCE WHERE A MOTION WAS PASSED TO;

• CAMPAIGN IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

• TUFP WAS LAUNCHED IN THE NORTH, IN 2006 THEN SPREAD TO THE SOUTH


CONFERENCE

• AT THE 2007 BIENNIAL DELEGATE CONFERENCE OF ICTU 2 MOTIONS

1. CRITICAL OF EU POLICY OF ‘APPEASEMENT’ OF ISRAEL

2 CALLING FOR POLICY OF BOYCOTT AND DIVESTMENT


DELEGATION

• THE CONFERENCE ALSO CALLED ON CONGRESS TO SEND A FACT FINDING DELEGATION TO PALESTINE


Delegation


REPORT OF DELEGATION

• DELEGATION CONSISTED OF GENERAL SECRETARIES/LEADERS OF UNIONS AND TUFP MEMBERS

• APPALLED AT WHAT THEY WITNESSED

• THE CRUSHING NATURE OF OCCUPATION MADE THEM DETERMINED TO BEAR WITNESS





HEBRON


BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT & SANCTIONS

WHAT DO WE MEAN?


BOYCOTT

• ACADEMIC/CULTURAL

• CONSUMER

• SPORTS


DIVESTMENT/DISINVESTMENT

• PUTTING END TO INVESTMENTS IN ISRAEL AND COMPANIES SUPPORTING ISRAELI OCCUPATION AND APARTIED –

• Red Rat (British) no co-operation with Disk – In Pro


SANCTIONS

• FREE AND PREFERENTIAL TRADE AGREEMENTS

• JOINT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS

• CURBING ISRAELI PROFITS FROM ITS APARTIED AND OCCUPATION POLICIES


LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL REFUSED TO SIGN CONTRACTS WITH VEOLIA


WHY TU MOVEMENT?

• SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIAN TRADE UNIONS & COMMUNITIES

• MESSAGE TO ISRAEL THAT ITS POLICIES UNACCEPTABLE

• ENSURE CONTRACTS/BUSINESS DO NOT GO TO ISRAELI COMPANIES

• BUILD GREATER AWARENESS

• PRESSURE ON HISTRADUT



TUFP

• ACTIONS SO FAR;

• EXTENSIVE FUNDRAISING, MEDICAL AID FOR GAZA, OVER € 80,000 RAISED

• PROTESTS• LOBBYING OF POLITICIANS• FRINGE EVENTS AT CONFERENCES• PUBLICATIONS• MEMBERS OF INDIVIDUAL UNIONS HAVING

MOTIONS PASSED


GAZA WAR CASUALITES

• At least seven ambulance paramedics and doctors were killed

• More than 20 others injured in Gaza between Dec. 27 and Jan. 18 while transporting or attempting to collect the wounded and the dead,.

The offensive also left about 1,420 Palestinians killed, more than two-thirds of whom civilians, and over 5,500 people injured.


TWINNING

• ON THE GROUND THE REALITY IS THAT THE FRONT LINE WORKERS ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED, BOMBARDMENT TOOK PLACE, FRONTLINE STAFF WENT IN, THEY WERE THEN BOMBARDED AGAIN

• AIM IS TO HAVE SOLIDARITY AND RAISE AWARENESS


CONGRESS ACTIONS

• TUFP PUT FORWARD A SERIES OF PROPOSALS TO CONGRESS EXECUTIVE; THE EXECUTIVE ADOPTED A PLAN


NATIONAL MID EAST CONFERENCE

2010 Conference

KEY PLAYERS


ACCESSIBLE BRIEFING DOCUMENT

• TU MEMBERS/WORKERS

• TRADES COUNCILS

• AWARE CONSUMERS

• RECRUITMENT OF CAMPAIGN CHAMPIONS

• TRAINING OF CAMPAIGN CHAMPIONS


A6 CAMPAIGN CARDS

• TRADE UNION MEMBERS

• GENERAL PUBLIC

• SCHOOLS/STUDENTS

CAMPAIGN PACK

• FOR CAMPAIGN ACTIVISTS

Documents

TRADE UNION FRIENDS OF PALESTINE PRESENTATION CONGRESS GLOBAL SOLIDARITY