trade unions

How unions are backing BDS

Olivia Katbi 25 May 2022

Major labor federations, teachers call on Oregon to divest funds from Israeli spyware corporation. Read more about How unions are backing BDS

Adri Nieuwhof 25 February 2019

Ali Abunimah 16 January 2018

Ali Abunimah 25 July 2016

Shurat HaDin’s complaint against United Electrical Workers thrown out again. Read more about US labor board affirms union's right to boycott Israel

Ali Abunimah 26 May 2016

Israel lobby group welcomes decision to overturn democratic vote by US union Read more about Rank and file challenge US union bosses over BDS

Nora Barrows-Friedman 26 November 2014

Student workers at the University of California will hold a vote to support the boycott movement in response to the call by Palestinian trade and labor unions. Read more about Unions "are part of the struggle" for Palestine solidarity on US campuses

Charlotte Silver 13 August 2014

Groups in the Bay Area and across the West Coast have been building coalitions with labor unions to prevent Israel’s cargo vessels from offloading this week. Read more about US activists to block Israeli cargo in mass shutdown of West Coast ports

Michael Deas 11 June 2012

The Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions has issued a statement of solidarity with European trade unions resisting public spending cuts and job losses and restated its support for proactive BDS campaigns and a boycott of the Histadrut. Read more about Palestinian labor expresses solidarity with European trade unions resisting austerity, supporting BDS measures

Asa Winstanley London 30 November 2011

So many UK trade unions have now passed motions in support of the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions movement that even the often conservative Trades Union Congress has been compelled to change policy. Read more about Boycott Israel campaign grows among UK unions, despite Zionist backlash

Nora Barrows-Friedman 16 July 2011

Following last week’s call by Palestinians for immediate military sanctions on Israel, “similar to that imposed against apartheid South Africa in the past,” US trade union members released a statement announcing full support of the call, BDS, and the right of return. Read more about US trade unionists support Palestinian call for military sanctions on Israel