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Safety Archive
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An unprecedented campaign against Construction Branch Fatal accidents
Posted on June 24, 2017 | No CommentsWAC 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... -
Construction workers in Israel: A campaign against workplace accidents creates possibilities for change
Posted on March 5, 2016 | No CommentsThe recent public campaign against accidents within the construction industry has created new possibilities for change and for workers' empowerment.
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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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WAC MAAN Conference of Arab workers demands: stop deadly accidents in Israeli construction sites
Posted on October 10, 2014 | No CommentsThe unprecedented conference gave voice to the union’s demands for change in safety procedures at construction sites.
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25 workers have been killed in work-related accidents in the first 3 months of 2014
Posted on May 4, 2014 | No CommentsWAC-MAAN is marking Workers’ Memorial Day on the April 28th to remember the victims of work-place accidents and to struggle for the living.
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The Workers Advice Center demands an urgent debate on safety at work
Posted on May 17, 2012 | No CommentsPosition paper submitted to the Knesset Committee on Labor and Welfare in response to the dangerous increase in the number of fatal work accidents
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Death of a Builder
Posted on December 17, 2011 | No CommentsAnd once again the darkness is so deep, no light can drive it back. And the abyss is so dark, so mute and echoing, it swallows her up and wraps her in eternal silence. This is Salima, 62 years old, from Um al-Fahm. That night, five years ago, when cars converged on her humble home and the grandchildren alighted, she knew that Ahmed, one of her eight children, was no more. Five days of intensive care had stopped time in its tracks. Hope had not survived.
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Why was Dr. Valery killed at the Haifa container terminal?
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No CommentsChronicle of a death foretold: After 17 years as a general worker at the Overseas Commerce container terminal in Haifa, Dr. Valery Bundrenko was killed in an appalling accident on Oct. 9, 2011, when a container crushed him to death. Truck drivers and workers at the terminal report a high number of accidents which only by a miracle did not claim the lives of workers. -
Conference on Safety in the Construction industry: “Its My Right to come back home Safely!”
Posted on August 1, 2011 | No CommentsThis first of its kind national conference took place through the initiative of WAC-Maan, on Saturday, July 23rd, to discuss the topic of safety in the workplace. The main message of the conference to 160 participants from the field of construction and their wives was that workplace accidents are not an edict from Heaven. There is no accident that cannot be prevented. The goal of the conference was to shake the public in view of shocking numbers: 30 yearly deaths of construction workers, most of them Arabs or migrant workers, and the injuring of above 6,200.
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17 workers died in Q1 of 2011
Posted on April 29, 2011 | No CommentsAround the world, unions are marking International Workers Memorial Day on April 28 to the memory of those killed in workplace accidents. This day was recognized in the 1980s by Canada as a national memorial day, and has since become an international event to raise awareness about safety at work and pay respects to the families of workers killed or disabled by work accidents.