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Solidarity without Borders: WAC MAAN’s Labor Day in Jerusalem

פורסם ב May 9, 2017 | No Comments
April 27th: As the crowd gathered in the hall of Beit Mazia in Jerusalem to celebrate May Day it became clear that dozens of Palestinian workers from the Zarfati Garage […]
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Employer turns Palestinian union organizer into a ‘security threat’

פורסם ב February 17, 2016 | No Comments
By Haggai Matar. Published on Local Call website on February 16, 2016 Hatem Abu Ziadeh spent almost 20 years working at an auto repair shop in a West Bank industrial zone. […]
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Mayday: Arab and Jewish workers united in Baqa Al-Gharbia

פורסם ב May 3, 2015 | No Comments
There is no better way to strengthen Jewish-Arab partnership, and Arab workers’ struggle for equality and social justice, than to gather in Baqa Al-Gharbia on Mayday. This is especially so […]
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Escalation in struggle to reinstate head of a Palestinian workers’ committee in settlement garage: WAC-MAAN appeals to National Labor Court

פורסם ב January 14, 2015 | No Comments
On January 12, the independent Trade Union Center WAC-MAAN appealed the Jerusalem Labor Court decision from 28 December 2014. The appeal, filed in the National Labor Court, demands the reinstatement […]
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Petition: Israel Police used to help Jewish employers break strikes in West Bank

פורסם ב September 15, 2014 | No Comments

Petition alleges that Jewish employers are using the police to intimidate Arab workers trying to unionize. By Nir Hasson, Haaretz, 15.9.14

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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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Union fights Israel ‘security risk’ claims to ban Palestinian union activists from West Bank workplaces

פורסם ב August 13, 2014 | 2 Comments

The struggle at Zarfaty Garage is precedent setting. It is the first time that Palestinian workers in the West Bank settlements organize themselves to win a union voice and negotiate a collective agreement.

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Zarfaty workers stand firm. Morale boosted by 7000 emails from unionists across globe

פורסם ב August 5, 2014 | No Comments

Palestinian workers in the West Bank settlement Mishor Edomim have voted to continue their struggle to end the harassment of independent workers union workplace reps and to stand firm against union-busting.

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WAC-MAAN: A call to stop intervention of the police in the labour dispute at Zarfati Garage

פורסם ב August 4, 2014 | No Comments

WAC-MAAN National Director Assaf Adiv to Att. Shlomo Yitzhaki, Commissioner of Labour Relations, Israel Ministry of Economy

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Zarfati garage flings false security accusations against Workers’ Committee chairperson

פורסם ב July 28, 2014 | 1 Comment

The Jerusalem Labor Court heard yesterday (July 27) WAC-Maan’s case against the Zarfati garage in the occupied West Bank. The garage recently fired the Workers’ Committee chairperson, Hatam Abu Ziyada.

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