Operating theatre nurses’ national one-day pay strike in France; Port Ravenna dockers in Italy ready to strike to block transport of military hardware for use against Gaza; national warning strikes by retail workers across Germany over pay; Stoppages at some UK schools and Liverpool University
After more than a month of intermittent protests and wage negotiations, the Mangosuthu University of Technology was expected to pay its staff salary increases on Friday
There’s been multiple BDS victories over the past week or so. Let’s round them up.
South Africa
South African dockworkers refused to off-load cargo from an Israeli vessel in the port city of Durban. The workers are members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union and were acting in solidarity with a call from the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions.
“We do not want Israeli ships or goods in South African ports and shops,” a member of the South African BDS Coalition told
Middle East Eye. “We salute our dockworkers and will continue to work in struggle with them to ensure that South Africa becomes an ‘apartheid free zone’.”
A number of trade union federations, unions and other organisations supported the actions in Durban.
The action followed a call by the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) for workers and trade unions to “refuse to unload [Israeli] ships and goods from sea and airports”.
Zim Lines is not an impartial maritime company: it has a history of shipping Israeli armaments and supporting Israeli apartheid. The company was established after WWII as a carrier of Jewish settlers to ports in Palestine and played a significant logistical role in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. During the 1947–49 war, Zim Lines supplied freight and military equipment to the State of Israel.