{"id":51139,"date":"2023-11-07T21:58:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T11:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=51139"},"modified":"2023-11-08T19:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T09:27:30","slug":"australian-unions-on-the-war-on-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=51139","title":{"rendered":"Australian Unions on The War on Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update<\/strong> (November 8, 2023) : A community picket @ Webb Dock in Port Melbourne (see below<\/em>) succeeded in preventing trucks loading the Zim vessel and it’s been forced to re-join the queue and to try again (perhaps days) later.]<\/p>\n

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I don’t have much to add but, nonetheless, I thought it might be interesting to examine how Australian trade unions have responded to the war on Gaza.<\/p>\n

To date, a month after the attack by Hamas and the beginnings of the IDF response, several statements have been made, both by union and related bodies:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA Statement on the humanitarian crisis in Palestine<\/a> (October 16)
\n\u2022 NSW Teachers Federation Executive Statement on Middle East Conflict<\/a> (October 17)
\n\u2022 NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association Statement on the Middle East conflict<\/a> (October 19)
\n\u2022 RTBU Statement regarding Israel-Hamas conflict<\/a> (October 19)
\n\u2022 NTEU Statement on Israel and Palestine<\/a> (October 20)
\n\u2022 ASU (NSW & ACT) Australian Unions call for peace<\/a> (October 21)
\n\u2022 ACTU calls for an urgent ceasefire in Israel and Palestine<\/a> (October 23)
\n\u2022 AEU (Federal) AEU Statement on the conflict in Israel and Palestine<\/a> (October 24)
\n\u2022 Executive of the Queensland\/Northern Territory Branch of the Electrical Trades Union<\/a> (October 26)
\n\u2022 ASU (VIC Private) Australian Unions call for peace<\/a> (October 27)
\n\u2022 IEU VIC & TAS Statement on Israel and Palestine<\/a> (October 30)
\n\u2022 MEAA statement on Israel and Palestine crisis<\/a> (November 6)
\n\u2022 Statement of solidarity with Palestine from academics in Australian universities<\/a> (Overland<\/em>, November 6)
\n\u2022 Unions Tasmania Statement on the Gaza Conflict<\/a> (November 6)<\/p>\n

I’ll add more as I discover them (on Twitter, Sarah Missen is keeping track<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/p>\n

\u2022 TARGETING PALESTINE: Australia\u2019s secret support for the Israeli assault on Gaza, through Pine Gap.<\/a>, Peter Cronau, Declassified Australia, November 3
\n\u2022 Palestinian human rights organisations launch court action to reveal \u2018secret\u2019 arms exports from Australia to Israel, Australian Centre for International Justice<\/a> (November 6)<\/p>\n

Finally, tomorrow in Naarm\/Melbourne (November 8) and on Gadigal land in Sydney (November 11), actions have been organised in response to the docking of a boat belonging to the Zim shipping line. According to Jim McIlroy (Unionists for Palestine get organised, endorse call to boycott ZIM<\/a>, Green Left, November 6): ‘The international effort is called #BlockTheBoat. ZIM, the Israeli shipping line, in the development of the Israeli war machine has been relentless. It is a major transporter of weapons of mass destruction.’<\/p>\n

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See also<\/em> : \u201cUnions [in so-called Australia]: Stop Arming Israel\u201d<\/a> (October 27, 2023) \/\/\/ Australia Palestine Advocacy Network<\/a> (APAN) \/\/\/ Free Palestine Melbourne<\/a> \/\/\/ Palestine Justice Movement Sydney<\/a> \/\/\/ Stand With Palestine<\/a> \/\/\/ Unionists for Palestine<\/a> \/\/\/ Workers in Palestine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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