Israel / Palestine

TRANSPORT UNION RMT today issued a renewed call for the biggest possible turn-out in support of the next round of protests organised up and down the country by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign for an end to the massacre in Gaza.

With nearly 2000 Palestinian’s killed, 10,000 injured and schools, refuges and hospitals targeted, RMT is urging all member’s to join the protests and to ensure a massive and continuing trade union presence on the streets as the PSC campaign forces the voices of opposition into the mainstream media.

This message has been circulated by Sindyanna, a women's workers' co-operative associated with the Workers' Advice Centre (WAC-MAAN) in Galilee, which RMT supports.

Dear Friends of Sindyanna,

It is with a heavy heart that I forward this message from WAC-MAAN calling for an end to the war on Gaza, an end to the Israeli occupation, and a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders.

Please read and share widely.

In hope of better days,

Hadas Lahav

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Sindyanna is a women workers' cooperative in Galilee, Israel. Iyt is linked to the Workers' Advice Centre (WAC), a trade union project that unites Jewish and Arab workers and campaigns against the oppression of the Palestinian people.

The RMT's National Women's Conference, and our Annual general Meeting support the Sindyanna co-operative and we recommend members try out their products.

Alongside baseball caps, pens and ties, you will soon be able to order RMT-labelled olive oil, baskets and soap. And by doing so, you will be supporting women workers and trade unionists in a part of the world that needs all the solidarity we can give.

RMT Council of Executives decision:

That we write to the ITF, TUC, STUC, Wales TUC and ICTU to establish if they are willing to support this campaign.