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Israeli workers committees shoot themselves in the foot

פורסם ב April 16, 2014 | No Comments
Rather than stepping up to head a social movement and lend the weight of organized labour to the struggle for peace and equality, leaders of new workers committees prefer to support Likud, thus giving a hand to a party that is right-wing, war-mongering and anti-labour.
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Bob Crow 1961 – 2014

פורסם ב March 13, 2014 | No Comments

We were shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden death of RMT GS Bob Crow who was a symbol of courageous and fighting unionism.

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The Histadrut Construction Union works for the construction companies, not the workers

פורסם ב December 15, 2011 | No Comments
The Israeli building contractors got what they wanted when the government decided in July to increase migrant laborer quotas for the construction sector
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Truckers – the Dutch model

פורסם ב October 5, 2010 | No Comments
A visit by Workers Advice Center (WAC-Maan) representatives to the Netherlands’ largest trade union, the FNV, revealed the enormous gap between an Israeli trucker’s wage and that of his Dutch counterpart. While in the Netherlands a truck driver works eight hours a day (48 hours a week) and earns some NIS 10,000 (2,000 euro) basic wage, in Israel a truck driver often has to work at least 12 hours a day (68 hours a week) for just NIS 7,000 (1,400 euro, including bonuses). This works out at NIS 48 (9.6 euro) per hour for the Dutch driver, and just NIS 24 (4.8 euro) for the Israeli driver – exactly half.
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Remarks

פורסם ב February 10, 2010 | No Comments
1. See for example: Kav Laoved Hotline for Migrant Workers Koach Laovdim Maagalei Zedek 2. See for example some of the articles published in the Israeli press on WAC’s activity […]
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The Pension Scam

פורסם ב February 19, 2008 | No Comments
In July 2007 the Histadrut (Israel’s General Federation of Labor) reached a pension agreement with the Coordinating Office of Economic Organizations.* “A historic accord!” said the signers. For the first […]
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Reforms versus Organized Labor

פורסם ב March 1, 2007 | No Comments
AFTER CUTTING INTO the living flesh of the jobless, the physically challenged, children and the elderly, and after trampling organized labor, the Israeli government in 2007 wakes up to discover […]
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The Breaking of Organized Labor in Israel

פורסם ב July 30, 2006 | No Comments
Israel of the 21st century likes its workers docile, accessible, mobile, and cheap. This wasn’t always the case. The ruling establishment, built by Mapai and the Histadrut, for decades maintained […]
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WAC’s Petition to the High Court

פורסם ב October 1, 2002 | No Comments
A Job to Win (Chapter 3) by Stephen Langfur The Workers Advice Center (WAC), through its lawyer, Bassam Karkabi, has petitioned the High Court of Israel, asking it to make […]
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