The picket, called by the Labor for Palestine network, followed a call from a new Palestinian union coalition that asked labor bodies around the world to divest from Israeli bonds and end “collusion with decades of violations of international law and human rights by Israel.”
The picketers, members of several unions and other groups, are part of a growing movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel.
The campaign has been endorsed by labor bodies around the world, including the trade union congresses of South Africa, Brazil, Ireland, Scotland and the UK, and labor bodies in Australia, France, Canada, Norway, Italy, Spain and Turkey.
But for decades, U.S. labor officials have invested unknown billions from union retirement funds in the bonds.
http://labornotes.org/blogs/2011/06/pickets-challenge-labor-find-solidarity-palestinians
