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WAC-MAAN combats settlement employers to improve conditions for Palestinian workers

פורסם ב January 23, 2019 | No Comments
On Dec. 18, 2018,Palestinian workers at NA Metal Industries, in the settlement of Mishor Adumim, declared a warning strike after the employer had refused to meet their basic demands.
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Palestinian workers in Mishor Adumim unionize with WAC, strike for collective agreement

פורסם ב December 20, 2018 | No Comments
Last summer, the workers unionized with WAC MAAN, which tried to bargain in their name towards a collective agreement. After the management refused to enter negotiations, a labor dispute was declared in August. In an apparent attempt to avoid a strike, owner and manager Mr. Ariel Nahum agreed to negotiate: the first meeting was held in September and a second in November.
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Israeli labor leader allies with extreme Right

פורסם ב September 25, 2018 | No Comments
Mr. Avi Nissenkorn, who chairs the biggest Israeli Trade Union federation, the Histadrut, recently announced support for Ze'ev Elkin in the race for mayor of Jerusalem. Mr. Elkin serves currently as the Minister of Jerusalem Affairs in Netanyahu's government and is considered to be a spokesperson for the extreme right wing. Nissenkorn's reason for supporting the settler leader is unclear on the face of things.
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Employers fear “Zarfati precedent”, raise Palestinian workers’ wages

פורסם ב May 17, 2018 | No Comments
Following the signing of the agreement, many employers in the industrial zone have raised their workers’ wages to minimum and begun issuing proper wage slips in an effort to keep their workers satisfied and thus avoid unionizing.
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The Histadrut’s new unionization drive in the service of Netanyahu

פורסם ב March 25, 2018 | No Comments
Dani Vazana, Unionized: The Renewal of Organized Labor in Israel, Sh’hakim Publishing, 2017, 488 pp. Dani Vazana’s “Unionized” deals with thousands of workers who have recently started to unionize in the […]
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Israeli unions silent over deportation of asylum seekers

פורסם ב February 20, 2018 | No Comments
The Israeli government’s decision to deport 37,000 asylum seekers who fled here from Eritrea and Sudan will be implemented starting April 2018. Israel refuses to review their requests for asylum […]
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Palestinian Workers Exploited by Israeli Tax Authority

פורסם ב October 17, 2017 | No Comments

Tax regulations for Palestinian workers in the Israeli Settlements is based on Jordanian law and as a result workers are paying higher taxes than the colleagues in Israel or in PA area. When it comes to settlements, Israel is ignoring international law - but where workers' rights are concerned, international law requires compliance.

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Palestinian Workers Are Now Unionizing in the West Bank

פורסם ב October 9, 2017 | No Comments
By Miriam Berger, The Nation, October 4th, 2017 The political front is stalemated, and the occupation grinds on—but some Palestinians are creating their own facts on the ground. To the article in […]
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Open nurseries in East Jerusalem and enable women to work!

פורסם ב August 7, 2017 | No Comments
The Clinical Legal Education Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, WAC-MAAN and The WAC-MAAN nursery staff group sent letters to the Labor and Welfare Minister Haim Katz, and Jerusalem Mayor […]
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In the bilingual day-care centers and schools of “Hand in Hand” (Yad b’Yad) teachers and workers have organized in WAC-MAAN

פורסם ב August 1, 2017 | No Comments
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 […]
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