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Norwegian union ends G4S contract as "act of solidarity" with Palestinians
[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited G4S to respond. G4S referred us to a previous statement provided below] A major Norwegian trade union has terminated its contract with security company G4S in protest of the firm’s role in providing equipment and services to Israeli prisons and settlements. Industri Energi, a trade union for workers in the energy and heavy industry sectors, had been using the company to provide security at its offices in Stavanger...Announcing that the contract will now be terminated, union leader...[said] that the move was taken as “an act of solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people.”...G4S has sought to deflect pressure from campaigners by announcing that it intends to pull out of a limited number of contracts relating to its operations in illegal Israeli settlements by 2015. However, G4S has not yet withdrawn from single contract and has not made any public commitments or statements about its extensive role in prisons inside Israel. The company remains deeply complicit in Israel’s abhorrent prison system.