Mary Manning refused to handle South African produce at a Dunnes Stores checkout in Dublin, following her union's boycott instruction. Suspension and solidarity action began a prolonged strike by a small group of workers, most of them women. They challenged the commercial relationships sustaining apartheid and demonstrated how workplace action in another country could contribute to a liberation struggle.
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How did the Dunnes Stores strikers connect their workplace to South African liberation?
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Their refusal challenged commercial ties sustaining apartheid and turned international solidarity into workplace action.
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