Safety ארכיון

(English) An unprecedented campaign against Construction Branch Fatal accidents

פורסם ב Juni 24, 2017 | Keine Kommentare
Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Amerikanisches Englisch verfügbar.
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(English) Construction workers in Israel: A campaign against workplace accidents creates possibilities for change

פורסם ב März 5, 2016 | Keine Kommentare

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(English) 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 Dezember 20, 2015 | 2 Kommentare

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WAC MAAN Conference of Arab workers demands: stop deadly accidents in Israeli construction sites

פורסם ב Oktober 10, 2014 | Keine Kommentare

The 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 Mai 4, 2014 | Keine Kommentare

WAC-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 Mai 17, 2012 | Keine Kommentare

Position 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 Dezember 17, 2011 | Keine Kommentare

And 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 Oktober 24, 2011 | Keine Kommentare
Chronicle 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.
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Conference on Safety in the Construction industry: „Its My Right to come back home Safely!“

פורסם ב August 1, 2011 | Keine Kommentare

This 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 | Keine Kommentare

Around 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.

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