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LABOUR GOES GLOBAL - with "WORKERS UNITING".
The UK's biggest union Unite, the product of last year's merger
between the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G) and Amicus,
is now united with a Union in North America.
The agreement is between Unite and the United Steelworkers' union (USW).
The combined group has more than three million members
in the UK, the US, Canada and the Caribbean.
Andrew Murray;
"We are dealing with global companies that can move capital
- and employment - around the world at will in many cases.
While big business is global and labour is national,
we are going to be at a disadvantage."
Derek Simpson, joint general secretary of Unite,
urges other unions, from Poland to Australia,
to join "Workers Uniting".
The president of USW, Leo W Gerard, says the
merger counters "the growing power of global capital".
"Globalisation has given financiers licence to
exploit workers in developing countries at the
expense of our members in the developed world," he says.
"Only global solidarity among workers can overcome
this sort of global exploitation wherever it occurs."
Labour unions from Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America,
are also talking about some form of co-operation.
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DOWN WITH TYRANNY ONE BIG UNION song
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UNIONS RALLY TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL.
It could be said that U.S. Trade Unions are not famous
for backing Peace in the Middle East....
Labour bureaucrats are often "as one" with Israeli officialdom.
U.S. Labour unions have invested hundreds of
millions of dollars of members’ funds in Israel bonds.
Only one year ago, 29 top US labour leaders condemned
British unions for calling for a boycott against Israel.
This year, the tide has finally turned.
U.S. Longshoremen struck for one day and refused to handle
arms and freight in protest at the Middle East wars.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees called
for a boycott of Israeli goods TWO years ago, in 2006.
COSATU, South Africa’s biggest union federation
did exactly the same in 2007.
IMPACT (the Irish Municipal, Public and Civil Trade Union);
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers,
and Ireland’s largest public sector union,
voted for a boycott in Spring 2008:
and UNISON, the biggest union in the UK
voted for a boycott last month, in June.
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