Contract Workers ארכיון

A victory in the struggle: Tel Aviv’s Bialik House workers recognized as employees

פורסם ב September 9, 2014 | No Comments

After a year’s struggle, workers at Bialik House who organized with WAC-Maan have been recognized by Tel Aviv Municipality as waged employees in every way.

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Antiquities Authority to take on 13 Palestinian workers in direct employment on Sunday

פורסם ב November 1, 2013 | No Comments

On Sunday, 3 Nov. 2013, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in Jerusalem will directly employ 13 workers who had been employed for years via a manpower company.

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Excavation workers of the Israel Antiquity Authority reach a breakthrough in their struggle for direct employment

פורסם ב May 26, 2013 | No Comments
Following a precedential verdict issued by the National Labor Court of Israel on 3/17/2013 preceded by a four years legal and organizational struggle, and after having insisted on fighting for direct employment, excavation workers, united by the Workers Advice Center (WAC-MAAN), got directly employed at the Israeli Antiquity Authority.
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National Labor Court mandates Antiquities Authority to hire excavation workers as regular employees

פורסם ב February 15, 2012 | No Comments

The last few days have seen a successful end to a long legal battle over demands to instate excavation workers as regular employees of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). About three years ago, dozens working for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) at the archaeological site of Ras al-Amud near Jerusalem were summoned by a representative of Brik, the personnel firm through which they were employed. He told them that all who had worked for more than nine months would not be hired in the future. Four days later, workers at the Um Tuba site, all Brik employees, were told the same thing. None received a letter of dismissal.

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Ofer Eini’s false fight for manpower workers

פורסם ב October 25, 2011 | No Comments

It’s not nice to spoil the party which so many prominent names have joined. However, Ofer Eini’s call to struggle against the exploitative system of employment via manpower agencies lacks all credibility. If the Histadrut chairperson has looked back on his career so far and come to recognize the evils of this employment framework, he must admit his responsibility for creating it and go home.

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Precedent-making decision in favor of 21 “temporary” workers and WAC-MAAN

פורסם ב March 4, 2010 | No Comments
by Nir Nader Regional Labor Court: Manpower Workers in Archaeology must be Employed Directly by IAA after 9 Months Jerusalem’s Regional Labor Court, in a precedent-making decision, has ruled that […]
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Diggers’ Wages

פורסם ב November 21, 2009 | No Comments
First published: Yedioth Aharonot, “24 hours” supplement (Hebrew), 2 Nov. 2009 by Jonathan Ben Efrat They earn NIS 2000 per month, are dismissed every nine months, and have few rights: […]
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Demonstration in Jaffa against the Israeli Antiquities Authority and Brick Ltd.

פורסם ב June 17, 2009 | No Comments
Organized by WAC, excavators from all over the country demonstrated in Jaffa in protest of their arbitrary layoff by Brick, through which they were hired for the Antiquities Authority for […]
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Abusive Employment Practices at AM:PM in Tel Aviv

פורסם ב May 20, 2009 | No Comments
by Hen Shemesh Receurrent complaints on illegal sanctions against employees Two years ago, a former employee of AM:PM, a Tel Aviv-based supermarket chain, turned to WAC complaining on illegal deductions […]
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