Al-Qods, 2008 Apr 19, Qods TV

Palestine's Boycott National Committee (BNC) issues statement saluting Canadian Postal Workers' boycott resolution.

In a statement issued on Friday, the BDS National Committee (BNC) in Palestine, which represents over 200 Palestinian civil society organizations, saluted what it called a "historic resolution."

The BNC statement further stated that the resolution "exemplifies the cause of workers` solidarity against oppression and racism, particularly at a time when Israel is intensifying, with impunity, its acts of genocide against close to 1.5 million Palestinians in occupied Gaza."

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)'s resolution is the first boycott resolution passed by a labor union at the national level in North America. It follows a similar resolution that was passed in May 2006 by the Ontario branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

The workers comprising the CUPW have a history of international solidarity. The union passed a similar resolution during the boycott campaign against the South African Apartheid regime. During that period, Canadian postal workers, members of the union, refused to handle mail to and from South Africa as part of the boycott.