The East Jerusalem Project
Palestinian Workers
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Employers fear “Zarfati precedent”, raise Palestinian workers’ wages
17 May 2018 1:28 PM | אין תגובות
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The women’s project
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![Rabab Kabaha graduated from the first caregiver training in the Academic School for Nursing at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Centre in October 1st, 2017. Since November of that year she […]](http://eng.wac-maan.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/רבאב-עבד-אלהאדי1-36x36.jpg "Caregiver Rabab Kabaha: A whole new life lies ahead")
Caregiver Rabab Kabaha: A whole new life lies ahead
15 August 2018 8:36 AM | אין תגובות
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College Teachers
Safety
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![WAC 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 […]](http://eng.wac-maan.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/סדנא-ראשונה-1-36x36.jpg "An unprecedented campaign against Construction Branch Fatal accidents")
An unprecedented campaign against Construction Branch Fatal accidents
24 June 2017 3:23 PM | אין תגובות
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Safety – more articles
- An unprecedented campaign against Construction Branch Fatal accidents
24 June 2017 3:23 PM | אין תגובות -
Construction workers in Israel: A campaign against workplace accidents creates possibilities for change
05 March 2016 8:07 PM | אין תגובות -
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 תגובות -
WAC MAAN Conference of Arab workers demands: stop deadly accidents in Israeli construction sites
10 October 2014 12:38 PM | אין תגובות -
25 workers have been killed in work-related accidents in the first 3 months of 2014
04 May 2014 12:10 PM | אין תגובות -
The Workers Advice Center demands an urgent debate on safety at work
17 May 2012 2:42 PM | אין תגובות - Death of a Builder
17 December 2011 12:27 PM | אין תגובות -
Why was Dr. Valery killed at the Haifa container terminal?
24 October 2011 12:49 PM | אין תגובות -
Conference on Safety in the Construction industry: “Its My Right to come back home Safely!”
01 August 2011 3:44 PM | אין תגובות - 17 workers died in Q1 of 2011
29 April 2011 10:30 AM | אין תגובות -
In collaboration with the National Insurance: WAC opens a program to raise awareness regarding safety measures among Arab construction workers
05 October 2010 4:05 PM | אין תגובות -
![A team of WAC’s safety department met the safety supervisor Hasan Shuli in Kabul on august 31. The meeting took place in order to advance the program to raise awareness […]](http://eng.wac-maan.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sefety_kabul-36x36.jpg "In collaboration with the National Insurance: WAC opens a program to raise awareness regarding safety measures among Arab construction workers")
In collaboration with the National Insurance: WAC opens a program to raise awareness regarding safety measures among Arab construction workers
05 October 2010 11:44 AM | אין תגובות
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Industry
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![Dozens of workers came to the strike picket line this morning (November 1st) at the entrance to Yehuda Steel Fences in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. The workers held […]](http://eng.wac-maan.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG-20161101-WA0016-36x36.jpg "140 workers start 4-day strike at “Yehuda Fences” in Ashdod")
140 workers start 4-day strike at “Yehuda Fences” in Ashdod
02 November 2016 1:13 PM | אין תגובות
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Migrant workers
Safety ארכיון
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![WAC 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 […]](http://eng.wac-maan.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/סדנא-ראשונה-1-115x115.jpg "An unprecedented campaign against Construction Branch Fatal accidents")
An unprecedented campaign against Construction Branch Fatal accidents
פורסם ב 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
פורסם ב 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
פורסם ב 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
פורסם ב 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
פורסם ב 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
פורסם ב 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
פורסם ב 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?
פורסם ב 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!”
פורסם ב 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
פורסם ב 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.
![A historic precedent was set by the Israeli Supreme Court in relation to a petition brought on March 15, by HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, in collaboration […]](http://eng.wac-maan.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/180530-תמונות-ווטסאפ-לשכת-התעסוקה-3-36x36.jpg "Historic Precedent: Employment Bureau in West Jerusalem to serve Palestinians from EJ Too"){kind=small}
![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 […]](http://eng.wac-maan.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/יד-ביד-ירושלים-24.5-36x36.jpg "In the bilingual day-care centers and schools of “Hand in Hand” (Yad b’Yad) teachers and workers have organized in WAC-MAAN"){kind=small}