"Trade union calls for legal right for workers to refuse to assist genocidal regimes"

DELEGATES AT CONNECT Trade Union’s conference have today called for the legal right for workers to refuse to assist genocidal regimes. 

...The trade union represents workers from engineering, electrical, and technical sectors ...

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The motion was supported unanimously by delegates. 

Keoghan said that in Ireland, there is currently the “unacceptable situation” in which Irish workers who refuse to handle, transport or otherwise engage with goods that could “possibly assist regimes” are subject to disciplinary action. 

Connect General Secretary Paddy Kavanagh said the union was not enforcing restrictions upon workers, but seeking respect for workers who do not want to be “in any way associated with assisting regimes that may be carrying out a genocide.”

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Delegates and guests observed a moment of silence for those killed in conflicts in Palestine, Lebanon, and Israel.

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