Copy of a resolution reprinted in the November 1988 issue of FEDERATION NEWS. The document says the following resolution adopted by the November 1 meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, was submitted by Executive Board Members Rosetta Daylie, associate director, State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31; Elcosie Gresham, president, Transit Local 241; and Jarvis Williams, president, Public Service Employees Local 46. The resolution says Royal Dutch/Shell ships crude oil to South Africa in violation of the United Nations' embargo on oil to South Africa, supplies fuel to the brutal South African security forces, and operates coal mines under slave-labor conditions and undercuts...
Copy of a resolution reprinted in the November 1988 issue of FEDERATION NEWS. The document says the following resolution adopted by the November 1 meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, was submitted by Executive Board Members Rosetta Daylie, associate director, State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31; Elcosie Gresham, president, Transit Local 241; and Jarvis Williams, president, Public Service Employees Local 46. The resolution says Royal Dutch/Shell ships crude oil to South Africa in violation of the United Nations' embargo on oil to South Africa, supplies fuel to the brutal South African security forces, and operates coal mines under slave-labor conditions and undercuts American-mined coal in the market abroad. The resolution says the AFL-CIO has called for the boycott of Shell and has urged its central labor bodies to sponsor local protest activities against apartheid and in support of the South African trade union movement. The resolution says the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) condemns the South African government for its denial of citizenship rights to the black majority and demands. The resolution says the CFL urges its affiliates to affirm or reaffirm support for the Shell Boycott, take part in Shell Boycott actions, and ask union members not to buy any Shell products nor use Shell Oil credit cards, The resolution says the CFL endorses the "Selective Purchasing Ordinance" introduced in July in the Chicago City Council to ban the purchase by the City of any commodities from the companies involved in the petroleum industry in South Africa. The resolution says t the CFL recognizes the efforts of the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid formed in early 1988 to support the South African trade un ion movement, to further the Shell Boycott and to support sanctions against South Africa and which is chaired or co -chaired by leaders of the Chicago Chapter, Coalition of Labor Union Women; Steelworkers District 31, Auto Workers Region 4, Machinists District 8, Council 31 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Amalgamated Transit Local 241, United Food and Commercial Workers Region 11, United Mine Workers District 12, Chicago and Central States Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Service Employees Joint Council 1, Midwest Region of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, American Federation of Government Employees, Teamsters Local 7 43 and Teachers Local 1. The resolution discusses COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions), the black trade union movement, a reign of terror, and a new labor law.
