Petition: Australian unions stop arming Israel!
Petition: Australian unions stop arming Israel!
Solidarity with Palestinian workers. End union complicity in genocide.
This open letter is an autonomous initiative in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Please share and circulate widely.
Please also contact your delegates and other union representatives directly to demand they undertake these steps. This is especially important if you are a member of a union which covers port, logistics, manufacturing, engineering or research workers, including MUA, NTEU, UWU, CPSU, ETU and AMWU.
Act from where you are to stop the supply of arms of Israel.
We ask workers and unions in so-called Australia to heed this call on every point. So-called Australia manufactures and exports arms to Israel, an act of material support for genocide.
We call on unions in manufacturing, engineering, logistics and all other industries participating in the arms trade:
- To direct their members to refuse to build or transport weapons destined for Israel, or to participate at any point in the supply chain for those weapons.
- To support workers who refuse to participate in the manufacture and supply of weapons destined for Israel, whether members or not. This includes strike funds and legal support.
We also call on unions and peak bodies whose members do not directly participate in the arms trade, but who share funds, spaces and affiliations with other unions and institutions that do:
- To demand that these unions and institutions heed the calls listed above.
- To enact all necessary steps to ensure these calls are heeded. This includes refusing to share funds, spaces or affiliations with those unions, peak bodies and institutions, until participation in the supply of arms to Israel is halted.
Following the global call for solidarity from Workers In Palestine, Britain's RMT union has voted to oppose the delivery of weapons to the Israeli regime. S.I. Cobas, a union in Italy's logistics sector, has vowed to “oppose any shipping of weapons to Israel”. The All India Central Council of Trade Unions has called on workers worldwide to "unite and boycott manufacturing or loading of weapons and military equipment destined to Israel”.
(Photograph via Guardian, Dean Lewins/AAP)
Solidarity with Palestinian workers. End union complicity in genocide.
This open letter is an autonomous initiative in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Please share and circulate widely.
Please also contact your delegates and other union representatives directly to demand they undertake these steps. This is especially important if you are a member of a union which covers port, logistics, manufacturing, engineering or research workers, including MUA, NTEU, UWU, CPSU, ETU and AMWU.
Act from where you are to stop the supply of arms of Israel.
We ask workers and unions in so-called Australia to heed this call on every point. So-called Australia manufactures and exports arms to Israel, an act of material support for genocide.
We call on unions in manufacturing, engineering, logistics and all other industries participating in the arms trade:
- To direct their members to refuse to build or transport weapons destined for Israel, or to participate at any point in the supply chain for those weapons.
- To support workers who refuse to participate in the manufacture and supply of weapons destined for Israel, whether members or not. This includes strike funds and legal support.
We also call on unions and peak bodies whose members do not directly participate in the arms trade, but who share funds, spaces and affiliations with other unions and institutions that do:
- To demand that these unions and institutions heed the calls listed above.
- To enact all necessary steps to ensure these calls are heeded. This includes refusing to share funds, spaces or affiliations with those unions, peak bodies and institutions, until participation in the supply of arms to Israel is halted.
Following the global call for solidarity from Workers In Palestine, Britain's RMT union has voted to oppose the delivery of weapons to the Israeli regime. S.I. Cobas, a union in Italy's logistics sector, has vowed to “oppose any shipping of weapons to Israel”. The All India Central Council of Trade Unions has called on workers worldwide to "unite and boycott manufacturing or loading of weapons and military equipment destined to Israel”.
(Photograph via Guardian, Dean Lewins/AAP)