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 Comments -
The link between interest rates and importing migrant workers
17 March 2014 5:53 PM | No Comments - Exploitation of migrant labor, unemployment in Arab villages… Who cares?
17 December 2011 12:42 PM | No Comments - Eli Yishai’s hidden agenda: Sudanese out! Chinese in!
17 June 2011 9:21 AM | No Comments - The government’s emergency programme: handouts for real-estate companies rather than job creation
25 November 2008 2:25 PM | No Comments - The Arab Worker in the Era of Globalization
31 July 2001 3:05 PM | No Comments
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Migrate Workers Archive
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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
Posted on 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
Posted on 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?
Posted on 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!
Posted on 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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The government’s emergency programme: handouts for real-estate companies rather than job creation
Posted on 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... -
The Arab Worker in the Era of Globalization
Posted on 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)....