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Trade Unionists For Palestine
This petition was published by SA Brisbane on Jan 14, 2009
Stop Israel’s aggression against Gaza!
We, the undersigned trade unionists, call on the Rudd government to denounce the latest Israeli aggression against Gaza, and to suspend all economic, diplomatic, cultural and political ties with the Israeli state until this aggression and the Israeli siege of Gaza ends.
We also call on the Australian Council of Trade Unions and State, Territory and regional trades and labour councils to:
1. Demand that the Rudd government adopt this approach towards the Israeli attack on Gaza;
2. Give full organisational and financial support to the protest movement in Australia against the Israeli aggression.
LEAD SIGNATORIES (Positions for identification purposes only)
Dr James Doughney, Victorian State President, National Tertiary Education Union
Tim Gooden, Secretary, Geelong Trades Hall Council
Steve Dargeval, Victorian State Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
Ralph Edwards, Constructioin Division, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union
Joan Doyle, Victorian Branch Secretary, Postal and Telecommunications Division, Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union
Burt Blackburne, National Assistant Secretary, Communications Division, Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union
Jim Casey, Senior Vice-President, NSW Fire Brigade Employees Union
Col Cooper, former National President, Communications Division, Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union
John Parker, Secretary, Gippsland Trades and Labour Council
John Cleary, former State Councillor, Southern States Branch, Electrical Trades Union
Dr Anthony Ashbolt, National Tertiary Education Union, Wollongong University
Dr Jeremy Smith, President University of Ballarat Branch, NTEU
We, the undersigned trade unionists, call on the Rudd government to denounce the latest Israeli aggression against Gaza, and to suspend all economic, diplomatic, cultural and political ties with the Israeli state until this aggression and the Israeli siege of Gaza ends.
We also call on the Australian Council of Trade Unions and State, Territory and regional trades and labour councils to:
1. Demand that the Rudd government adopt this approach towards the Israeli attack on Gaza;
2. Give full organisational and financial support to the protest movement in Australia against the Israeli aggression.
LEAD SIGNATORIES (Positions for identification purposes only)
Dr James Doughney, Victorian State President, National Tertiary Education Union
Tim Gooden, Secretary, Geelong Trades Hall Council
Steve Dargeval, Victorian State Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
Ralph Edwards, Constructioin Division, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union
Joan Doyle, Victorian Branch Secretary, Postal and Telecommunications Division, Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union
Burt Blackburne, National Assistant Secretary, Communications Division, Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union
Jim Casey, Senior Vice-President, NSW Fire Brigade Employees Union
Col Cooper, former National President, Communications Division, Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union
John Parker, Secretary, Gippsland Trades and Labour Council
John Cleary, former State Councillor, Southern States Branch, Electrical Trades Union
Dr Anthony Ashbolt, National Tertiary Education Union, Wollongong University
Dr Jeremy Smith, President University of Ballarat Branch, NTEU
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