The East Jerusalem Project
Palestinian Workers
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![More extreme exploitation of Palestinian workers following dramatic increase in trade in work permits Position paper submitted to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Employment Arrangements for Palestinians in the Construction Sector, […]](http://eng.wac-maan.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/positionpapersite-36x36.png "Give the Palestinian workers a ‘green card’")
Give the Palestinian workers a ‘green card’
24 July 2022 9:27 AM | אין תגובות
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The women’s project
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![Rabab Kabaha, from the village of Barta’a is 39 years old, married and the mother of 4 daughters. She is a professional caregiver. Rabab worked for five years as the […]](http://eng.wac-maan.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/rababengsite-1-36x36.png "Rabab Kabaha, Caregiver – I discovered the humanity in me")
Rabab Kabaha, Caregiver – I discovered the humanity in me
09 August 2022 10:55 AM | אין תגובות
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College Teachers
Safety
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![WAC MAAN continues to be a leading factor in a growing campaign against Construction Branch Fatal accidents in Israel. Taking into account that the number of workers who died in […]](http://eng.wac-maan.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/סדנא-ראשונה-1-36x36.jpg "An unprecedented campaign against Construction Branch Fatal accidents")
An unprecedented campaign against Construction Branch Fatal accidents
24 June 2017 3:23 PM | אין תגובות
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Industry
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![Workers of the Ta’aman food company at Mishor Adumim in the occupied West Bank have been on strike since Sunday, Dec 5, 2021. On Dec 6, they also held a […]](http://eng.wac-maan.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-06-at-14.22.43-36x36.jpeg "Ta’aman workers on strike: “We are determined to reach a collective agreement ensuring our rights”")
Ta’aman workers on strike: “We are determined to reach a collective agreement ensuring our rights”
08 December 2021 10:55 AM | אין תגובות
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Migrants workers – more articles
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We thank more than 6300 unionist who responded to Labourstart campaign and helped stop the deal to import bonded Chinese workers to Israel
20 December 2015 5:21 PM | 2 תגובות -
The link between interest rates and importing migrant workers
17 March 2014 5:53 PM | אין תגובות - Exploitation of migrant labor, unemployment in Arab villages… Who cares?
17 December 2011 12:42 PM | אין תגובות - Eli Yishai’s hidden agenda: Sudanese out! Chinese in!
17 June 2011 9:21 AM | אין תגובות - Drug-induced efficiency?
09 December 2010 2:28 PM | אין תגובות - The government’s emergency programme: handouts for real-estate companies rather than job creation
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![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 […]](http://eng.wac-maan.org.il/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "WAC’s Petition to the High Court")
WAC’s Petition to the High Court
01 October 2002 3:02 PM | אין תגובות - The Arab Worker in the Era of Globalization
31 July 2001 3:05 PM | אין תגובות
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Migrant workers
Migrate Workers ארכיון
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We thank more than 6300 unionist who responded to Labourstart campaign and helped stop the deal to import bonded Chinese workers to Israel
פורסם ב December 20, 2015 | 2 CommentsOn Sunday, December 13, 2015, the Israeli daily Calcalist (Yediot Aharonot's economic supplement) published an article that announced the failure of the deal between Israel and China, which had been slated to allow the importation of 20,000 Chinese workers as bonded labour to work in the Israeli construction industry.
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The link between interest rates and importing migrant workers
פורסם ב March 17, 2014 | No CommentsThe directors of The Bank of Israel understand what the government refuses to acknowledge: the Israeli economy doesn’t generate jobs.
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Exploitation of migrant labor, unemployment in Arab villages… Who cares?
פורסם ב December 17, 2011 | No CommentsThe Nov. 28 session of the Knesset Committee on Foreign Workers was intended to debate putting an end to the import of migrant labor for construction and agriculture, and encouraging Israeli workers in these sectors. But instead, we were witness once again to a display of impotency in the face of the powerful farmers' lobby. The debate exposed the well-known fact that there is nobody in the political establishment who is able or willing to do what must clearly be done: stopping the import of migrant laborers and opening up jobs to local workers especially Arab women.
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Eli Yishai’s hidden agenda: Sudanese out! Chinese in!
פורסם ב June 17, 2011 | No CommentsBehind the interior minister's demagoguery lies an attempt to help building contractors by replacing Africans with more profitable Chinese labor. Published in Haaretz, on 17 June.
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Drug-induced efficiency?
פורסם ב December 9, 2010 | No CommentsIn debates on the employment of migrant labor (“foreign workers”) and Israelis in agriculture, one claim is heard repeatedly: Israelis are unable to compete with the amazing capabilities of the Thais to work long hours under the hot sun. A document released by the Knesset’s Information and Research Center offers a worrying explanation.
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The government’s emergency programme: handouts for real-estate companies rather than job creation
פורסם ב November 25, 2008 | No CommentsWAC Press release 18.11.08 After months of denials and attempts to present the Israeli economy as an island of prosperity unaffected by the global economic crisis, the Treasury has finally […] -
WAC’s Petition to the High Court
פורסם ב October 1, 2002 | No CommentsA 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 […] -
The Arab Worker in the Era of Globalization
פורסם ב July 31, 2001 | No CommentsThe Struggle for Jobs in Israel by Stephen Langfur On April 28, Omar Alami, an unemployed construction worker from Nazareth, visited the local branch of WAC (the Workers Advice Center). […]
![Negotiations on a collective agreement are due to start soon Some 72 employees (more than a third) of the NGO “Hand in Hand” have joined WAC-MAAN, making it the representative […]](http://eng.wac-maan.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/יד-ביד-ירושלים-24.5-36x36.jpg "In the bilingual day-care centers and schools of “Hand in Hand” (Yad b’Yad) teachers and workers have organized in WAC-MAAN"){kind=small}