On July 4th, the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) passed a motion at its biennial conference in support of a customer boycott against Apartheid Israel. Following in the footsteps of other unions around the world who have taken up the boycott call, the most prominent general union in the UK, with over 800,000 members, also vowed to take part in the lobby of the British parliament on November 2nd and demand the UK government take a stronger stand against Israel. It condemned Israeli violence against the Palestinian people.
TGWU has a long history of campaigning on issues such as ethical trading and workers' rights within a global context.
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