L’exemple du syndicat irlandais des conducteurs de trams

From Prof. James Bowen:
This afternoon (Fri, 18 August), John Flannery, the trade
union official who represents the drivers on the Dublin tram system, confirmed to me that the Dublin drivers will not allow the Dublin system to be used to train drivers for the new tram system in the illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem.

“It’s not going to happen”, he said, adding that he was
happy to be quoted on this.

The French company, Connex, through its Irish subsidiary,
Veolia Transport Ireland, operates the Dublin tram system
(which is called the Luas) on behalf of the Railway Procurement Agency, the Irish authority responsible for the procurement of railway infrastructure. Connex has also won a contract to operate a new tram system which is being built to service the illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and proposes to use the Dublin system to train the drivers for the East Jerusalem ystem.

No official announcement has been made. The drivers were given only unoffical news of the plan to train the Jerusalem drivers in Dublin and Mr. Flannery told me that the trade union officials had also only given an unofficial reaction to the company management. However, he was quite adamant that the Dublin drivers will not allow the Israeli drivers to be trained in Dublin.

The chief executive of Veolia Transport Ireland is currently on holiday, so it is probable that Connex will not make any attempt to further their plans until he returns.

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which has already
successfully convinced several cultural event organizers
to reject and return Israeli government sponsorship, will be
supporting this excellent stance from the Dublin tram drivers.

— 
Prof. James Bowen |
Computer Science
UCC, Cork
Ireland