{"id":7637,"date":"2024-01-29T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T05:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2024-01-29T00:10:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T05:10:36","slug":"moving-unions-to-fight-for-a-free-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/moving-unions-to-fight-for-a-free-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Unions to Fight for a Free Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7637\" class=\"elementor elementor-7637\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3adf4b9a elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-items-bottom elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3adf4b9a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{"stretch_section":"section-stretched","background_background":"classic"}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1dccb155\" data-id=\"1dccb155\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1905623 elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile animated-slow elementor-view-default elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon\" data-id=\"1905623\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{"_animation":"fadeInDown"}\" data-widget_type=\"icon.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon\">\n\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-angle-double-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-20b0fa78 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"20b0fa78\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1c71b8a1\" data-id=\"1c71b8a1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-795e7c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"795e7c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Photo: James Hutt<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3e5714cb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3e5714cb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-23694dc5\" data-id=\"23694dc5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2bf52c99 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2bf52c99\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">1. 29. 2024<\/h3><h1>Moving Unions to Fight for a Free Palestine<\/h1><h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/><strong>James Hutt<\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/h3><hr \/><p><br \/>On December 12, Canada voted in favour of a United Nations resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel\u2019s war on Gaza. Despite the international attention, the vote itself had little impact. As Israel\u2019s ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/politics\/article-canadas-ceasefire-call-naive-has-no-impact-on-the-war-says-israeli\/\">said<\/a>, \u201cThe fact that Canada changed its position didn\u2019t change anything on the ground.\u201d<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And why would it? Canada continues to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/worldbeyondwar.org\/canadastoparmingisrael\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sell weapons to Israel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It continues to provide international and diplomatic support to the Israeli state \u2013 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjpme.org\/un_dashboard\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">voting against Palestine on other UN resolutions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Arab-Israeli-Conflict\/Canada-also-asked-ICC-to-drop-Israeli-war-crimes-lawsuits-619309\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">blocking efforts to try Israel for war crimes and human rights violations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It props up Israel\u2019s apartheid regime with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/monitormag.ca\/articles\/canada-must-cancel-its-free-trade-deal-with-israel\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trade agreements that favour Israel and its illegal Jewish-only settlements<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> across the West Bank. Canada enables more than 200 registered charities, including the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjpme.org\/indigo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HESEG Foundation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/yvesengler.com\/2021\/11\/08\/charities-push-israeli-university-military-ties\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">send more than $250 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> per year of taxpayer-subsidized donations to assist Israel and its occupying army.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canada\u2019s many forms of economic, military, and diplomatic support for Israel ensure that the Israeli state can easily ignore a UN vote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As solidarity activists in Canada, our role is to eliminate our government\u2019s longstanding support for Israeli apartheid and to force Canada to put economic sanctions and other pressure on the Israeli government \u2013 until Palestine is free.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I believe the most effective way to do that is through the labour movement.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><h2>Labour for Palestine<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since October, thousands of new supporters have joined <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourforpalestine.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Labour for Palestine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (L4P), a pan-Canadian network of trade union activists working to deepen solidarity with Palestinian workers and people in their fight for liberation. Countless more have emailed the network and posted on social media to ask what their unions and locals can do to stop the genocide in Gaza \u2013 and end Canada\u2019s complicity.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Labour for Palestine was founded in 2006 in response to the call from more than 170 Palestinian civil society organizations \u2013 including all major Palestinian trade unions \u2013 to boycott, divest from, and apply sanctions (BDS) to Israel until it complies with international law. L4P helped major unions such as the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), and Unifor to pass BDS resolutions and to develop lasting connections with Palestinian workers and unions.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new generation of trade union activists, of which I\u2019m a member, relaunched Labour for Palestine in 2017, after a period during which the organization had been dormant. We\u2019ve focused on expanding our connections throughout the rank and file of unions, delivering education on Palestine and developing a network of trainers, passing new resolutions and implementing existing BDS resolutions in concrete ways, and engaging union members in both mass demonstrations for Palestine and direct actions against weapons manufacturers.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a network, Labour for Palestine connects activists to others in their union or region, offers <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1G6LBGCmNFF6BtQshck8Ivf_Jc8t3xPwu?usp=drive_link\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and provides organizing spaces so that anyone can act to help advance Palestinian liberation across the entire labour movement.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are concrete steps to push your local or union to support Palestine:<br \/><\/span><\/p><ol><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join or start an L4P caucus in your union. Identify a couple of like-minded people and host an initial meeting to strategize. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1i4pvxqCRQzxk5DF7uYRO_yccxSlgRxKAxv5dMbQnQIw\/edit?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s a sample agenda<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Let Labour for Palestine know (<\/span><a href=\"mailto:L4PCanada@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L4PCanada@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and we can promote it to others from your union on our email list.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get your union or local to host <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1gmvyTG3kXhzPLSBVFq-KuUBpQCMrqUJ1ulgNzuaA7FY\/edit?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an educational on Palestine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for members. L4P has a number of presentations, trainings, and materials available. We\u2019re available to present to labour bodies and train members on how to deliver trainings themselves.<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pass a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/14PBPA0Owcs_mIZl9i8QK1tYE3S5RoEg76S3uAKK58eA\/edit?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pro-Palestine resolution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at your local, union, or labour council. Passing a BDS resolution might be a long shot if you haven\u2019t taken smaller steps. Check out L4P\u2019s resolution tracker for ideas. These include everything from committing your union to support a demonstration to leading solidarity delegations to Palestine.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1DlI0cQu3wcr4obpmcT6Wey9lM1_oI_fjW3qtGJBComo\/edit?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launch a BDS-specific campaign for your union or workplace<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Our workplaces and unions prop up Israeli apartheid in unique ways. We can change that by updating procurement policies with reference to the boycott list, eliminating partnerships with Israeli companies and universities, or exploring our sector\u2019s specific connections to apartheid (for example, Canada Post refuses to recognize Palestine on outgoing mail).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join or start a regional chapter of Labour for Palestine. Chapters are great ways to meet Palestine solidarity activists from other unions and from your community \u2013 to learn what they\u2019re doing, share tips, and strategize.<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Convince your local or union to endorse pro-Palestine protests and promote them to members. Organize a contingent to attend demonstrations or direct actions (bring your union flags!) and get involved in protest planning.<\/li><\/ol><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since October, Labour for Palestine has started caucuses in CUPW, PSAC, CUPE, British Columbia General Employees\u2019 Union (BCGEU), Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE), and Ontario Public Service Employees\u2019 Union (OPSEU). In those organizations, often for the first time, union members are meeting to strategize about how to educate and engage their coworkers around Palestine liberation, and how to get their unions to actively champion that struggle. We have launched regional chapters in Victoria, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, and St. John\u2019s, with more chapters on the way.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Far too often, radical unionists have limited connections to others outside their union. Labour for Palestine regional chapters bring union activists together from across unions and sectors, connecting them to community activists and civil society groups to organize together.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h2>Why the labour movement?\u00a0<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though not all unionists may think of their unions as prime sites for organizing in solidarity with Palestine, unions have been critical drivers of social change for more than 150 years. The labour movement has been on the decline for decades, and its political ambitions have shrunk, but it is still among the best tools we have to win changes not just in our workplaces but also throughout our society and around the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s why: <\/span><\/p><ol><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Scale<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: 29% of Canadians <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/pub\/36-28-0001\/2022011\/article\/00001-eng.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">belong to a union<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (as of 2022 data). By working within our unions, labour councils, and federations, we have the potential to reach more than 11 million union members \u2013 plus their families and friends. No other organization or network of organizations comes close to that. Most national unions have members in every single community and riding in the country.<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Resources<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Major unions have millions of dollars at their disposal for member engagement and education, political advocacy, and international solidarity. They can host events, provide translation and printing, dedicate staff time, or book off members to do organizing work.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Influence:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Unions are social and cultural institutions that can influence society overall. When they take a position, it has the potential to reverberate throughout society, shifting what people think of as normal and just, and making it easier for other organizations to follow. (Churches have played a similar important role in popularizing the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign.)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Collective bargaining<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: What unions are able to win in negotiations with employers becomes part of a legally binding collective agreement. Usually this means increased wages, benefits, and protections on the job, but a number of unions have successfully bargained clauses on everything from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/utla.net\/campaigns\/contract-2022-2025\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">climate action to affordable housing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We\u2019re unlikely to see unions bargain over ending arms sales to Israel anytime soon, but unions have won <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifor.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/SJF-AnnualReport-HO-v4.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">international solidarity funds that are partly paid by the employer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Power<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The most powerful weapon working people have is the ability to collectively withdraw our labour. Nothing else \u2013 no number of rallies or direct actions \u2013 even comes close. While most forms of advocacy amount to appealing to those in power to do the right thing, workers impose a real economic cost when we organize together and go on strike, applying pressure that can force our targets to meet our demands.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ol><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reversing the Canadian state\u2019s support for Israel is no small task. It would mean not just a break in Canada\u2019s relationship with the United States, but also a fundamental break with imperialism. Israel is not only an ally of the United States (and Canada); Israel is also a client state of the United States, advancing the latter\u2019s interests across the Middle East. Israel is a strategic lynchpin of the international economic order. That\u2019s why US President Joe Biden talks about Israel being \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/a-smart-investment-thatll-pay-dividends-biden-asks-congress-to-boost-israel-ukraine-support\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a smart investment that\u2019s going to pay dividends<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forcing Canada to break with the logic of the global capitalist system and sanction Israel will require tremendous power. Labour-led actions that shut down parts of the economy and impose economic costs on Canada and Israel have that power. That\u2019s what\u2019s made the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blocktheboat.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Block the Boat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> actions so powerful: community members and union activists have set up picket lines and prevented Israeli-owned ZIM container ships from unloading at west coast ports. We need to support those actions and expand them to other strategic industries.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The labour movement used to lead militant strikes and job actions like that \u2013 and it could again. We need to build towards that goal by educating millions of workers, connecting them to radicals within and across unions, and supporting them to mobilize in big, powerful ways. It won\u2019t be easy or quick, but Labour for Palestine is laying the groundwork to do just that. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76d3a8c1 elementor-widget-divider--view-line_icon elementor-view-default elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"76d3a8c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon elementor-divider__element\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-sun\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d570c5a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3d570c5a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>James Hutt is a labour organizer and writer on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabeg territory (Ottawa). He is a member of Labour for Palestine’s Coordinating Committee. 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