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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 Comments

On 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 Comments

The 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 Comments

The 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 Comments

Behind 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 Comments

In 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 Comments
WAC 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 […]
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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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The Arab Worker in the Era of Globalization

פורסם ב July 31, 2001 | No Comments
The 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). […]
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