TUFI Fringe at STUC Congress 2009
TUFI held a fringe event at the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) in Perth on 21 April 2009.
Speaking on the panel the Histadrut’s director of international affairs, Avital Shapira-Shabirow, criticised the trade unionists that were pushing for a boycott of Israel. She said it was not for people outside the region “to force a boycott call upon the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) to suit their own agenda when it only acts to divide the Histadrut and the PGFTU at a time when cooperation between the two federations is so positive”.
The Histadrut representative also referenced a landmark agreement between the Histadrut and the PGFTU, signed in August 2008, which expressed the wish to base future relations on negotiation, dialogue and joint initiatives to advance “fraternity and co-existence”. She said it was odd that Scottish trade unionists wanted to undermine the relationship between trade unions on the ground at a time when real progress was being made.
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