Trade unions arranging attendance at Mandela funeral for Dunnes Stores strikers
Saturday 7 December 2013Mandate Trade Union and other trade unions in Ireland are in the process of arranging the attendance of the Dunnes Stores Anti-Apartheid strikers at the funeral of Nelson Mandela in South Africa.
In 1984 IDATU (now Mandate Trade Union) member and Dunnes Stores worker Mary Manning was suspended for refusing to handle South African goods. Her co-workers went on strike for three years outside the Dunnes Stores outlet on Henry Street in Dublin.
Mandate General Secretary John Douglas said, “The trade union movement believes it would be a fitting tribute from the Irish trade union movement to send the Dunnes Stores strikers, who took such a brave stance on the issue of Apartheid, to the funeral of Mr Mandela in South Africa.”
More details will follow in the coming days.
