Shurat HaDin Law Center in Israel has filed a complaint with the NLRB against the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America for violating the National Labor Relations Act. The union is accused of encouraging workers to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), a movement that encourages people to boycott Israeli businesses and enterprises until they comply with international law and Palestinian rights. In 2011, Canadians passed Bill C-6 which ordered 48,000 locked out postal workers back to work. The lockout was issued after a series of union strikes. This completely shut down Canada’s postal operations. Now, the union is arguing that the bill was unlawful because it denied union members the rights of freedom of association and freedom of expression and forced them to accept terms that they would have never accepted. No court date has been set yet. Almost 30,000 South African coal workers laid down their tools for a one-week strike over wages. South Africa’s coal industry is highly important for the country as most of the power is coal-generated and severe power outages have become a regular occurrence of late. An agreement was reached last week.
Source: EPA
