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The BDS movement calls on all trade unions, student organisations and wider civil society organisations, across Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales, to take action this Thursday, 14 May.

BDS movement salutes trade unions' supporting day of action taking place across Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales on May 14th.

In response to the call from Palestinian trade unions to escalate pressure to end complicity in Israel’s genocide and apartheid, three major trade union federations representing over 80 trade union affiliates across the islands of Ireland and Britain announced support for workplace actions this Thursday 14 May, coinciding with the 78th anniversary of Nakba.

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No Labor for Genocide - No complicity with Apartheid

May 1st is a day of internationalist solidarity, where we remind ourselves that an injury to one is an injury to all. The US-Israeli genocide and global complicity have not only exterminated tens of thousands of Palestinians and continue to kill Palestinian workers merely for continuing to do their jobs as medical personnel, journalists, rescue workers, and humanitarian workers.

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Palestinian trade unions & professional syndicates call for escalating BDS pressure to end complicity with Israel’s #GazaGenocide & apartheid

More than one year into the livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, Palestinians stand united in resisting Israel’s genocide and decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, occupation and apartheid. We call on trade unions and workers worldwide to escalate BDS pressure to end the complicity of states, corporations and institutions in Israel’s crimes against the entire Palestinian people, as well as the fraternal people of Lebanon, among others.