The Arthur Svensson Award was instituted last year: The award will be given to a person or organisation for outstanding contributions made to promoting union rights and/or strengthening trade unionship at an international or national level. It was awarded this year to…
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Trade Unions stick to guns of Palestinian cause
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This year’s theme for May 1st, hazy and bloodstained as it is, will be the Palestinian cause. The ad above ran in today’s Dagsavisen. A full page ad like this costs something in the vicinity of NOK 30 000. But…
LO (TUC) has ‘open door’ into government offices, provides financial support
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The screenshot above is from Aftenposten. Excerpt: “LO has an open door into the government offices. In next year’s budget Roar Flåthen has rearranged billions. Financial support to the red-green parties has also increased sharply”. LO is tightly locked in…
LO’s Gerd Kristiansen not in the know
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LO’s deputy leader Ms. Gerd Kristiansen has been to Palestine and met with Salam Fayyad, with whom she is appropriately impressed. LO notes: “It is impressive to debate with Salam Fayyad, who meets all difficulties with concrete measures” says Kristiansen.…
University of Oslo debates whether to boycott… Israel
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And so once again it is time, this time at the University of Oslo, to debate whether or not to boycott Israel. The fact that Israel is mainly populated by the only people Norwegians have helped try annihilate is generally…
Ship of fools in search of skipper
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In medieval times, society heartlessly rid itself of the mad and the sad by paying mariners to take them away. In today’s Europe the inmates are running the asylums, and the asylums are crusading against Israel. The Norwegian Palestine-Lobby, which…
LO disseminates erroneous information
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The lobby: LO and anti-Semitism
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LO, COSATU and the Socialist Left
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LO is Norway’s largest TUC. When Minister of Development Erik Solheim (Socialist Left) visited South Africa in February 2009, LO wrote him a letter asking him to meet with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). In terms of…
Union magazine reports on “closed doors” to Israel
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Every once in a while there is a respite, a lull, and you see articles like the above in magazines where you would not expect to find them and you think “ah well that’s fine now maybe Norway and Norwegians…
Roar Flåthen (LO) and the TULIP Solidarity Fund
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Roar Flåthen is the powerful leader of LO (Norwegian TUC). While the organization is devoted to the fight against racism, it sees no problem in simultaneously singling out Israel for criticism. Of all the countries on the globe, Israel alone…
Tulip:Union-owned Swedish newspaper spreads blood libel against Jews
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Key segments in the Norwegian labour movement are obsessed with Israel, a nation they would have ignored if it had been populated primarily by arab muslims. Update from TULIP below: Union-owned Swedish newspaper spreads blood libel against Jews By admin…
LO (TUC) and the Naqba
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LO is Norway’s most powerful trade union confederation. In the May 1st parade in Trondheim this year, the Palestinian cause attracted the largest following. In LO leader Roar Flåthen’s May 1st speech he singled out one country – Israel –…
LO (TUC) singles out Israel for trade union hostility
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In this year’s May 1st parade in Trondheim, the Palestinian people’s cause proved the most popular. During LO (Trade Union Confederation) leader Roar Flåthen’s May 1st speech, he singled out Israel alone among the nations of the world, for criticism.…
Trade union confederation opens for boycott of Israel
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LO is the major trade union confederation in Norway and is traditionally tied to the left-of-centre in general and the Labor movement and party in specific. The organization now warns that they will call for a boycott of, surprise surprise, Israel, unless…
Norway, the Trade Unions and Israel
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The two main Trade Union Confederations in Norway are LO and YS, with the former having strong ties to the Labor movement. LO’s description of itself on its website: ” The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) is decidedly the largest and most influential workers’…