Organise, Organise, Organise

Read the shocking story of Oscar Mabori. Picked up from a casual line-up at the side of the road by a bakkie. His first day on the site, no terms, conditions, safety, or even an agreement to pay him anything. He survives a sixteen-storey fall. But the company does not even visit him in hospital. See the linked item from COSATU, below. SATAWU’s Randall Howard is the new President of the 4.5 million strong International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), one of three South Africans currently at the head of world trade union federations. See the two liked items for details. In our on-going series on the boycott movement against the Israeli colonialists, here are two more examples from the recent past. The first is the British architects boycott, and the second the British academic boycott. Read the two linked items below. There are also a great number of items to be found in Google, if, for example, you feed in the words “Boycott Israel”. Click on these links: COSATU sends wishes to Oscar Mabori, 16 floor drop survivor (401 words) SATAWU announcement, Randall Howard acceptance as ITF President (605 words) COSATU congratulates Randall Howard (257 words) Architects boycott Israel over apartheid barrier, Independent (730 words) Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics, The Guardian (820 words)