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New Research: WAC-MAAN – A decade of organizing Palestinian workers in the West Bank Settlements – A summary

פורסם ב June 15, 2019 | No Comments
The independent trade union center WAC-MAAN releases a comprehensive report summarizing ten years of struggle to organize Palestinian workers in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank The report released […]
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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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Bob Crow 1961 – 2014

פורסם ב March 13, 2014 | No Comments

We were shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden death of RMT GS Bob Crow who was a symbol of courageous and fighting unionism.

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The new independent union – WAC Maan is our Tahrir Square

פורסם ב June 18, 2012 | No Comments
After the demonstrations of last summer and also well before, the offices of the Workers Advice Center (WAC-Maan) have been open 365 days a year for meetings with workers from throughout the country. These workers face a harsh and frustrating reality, a reality known in the dialect of Netanyahu and his associates as “Israel’s flexible and dynamic labor market”
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WAC Maan representatives at LaborStart international conference in Istanbul

פורסם ב November 30, 2011 | No Comments
Representatives of the independent union WAC-Ma’an took part in an international trade union conference in Istanbul in November, initiated by the LabourStart website and hosted by Turkish unions. Participants included some 100 representatives from 30 countries, among them European states, Australia, North America, Africa and Iran. However the most notable delegates came from the Arab states including the those who experienced firsthand the recent revolutions: Egypt and Tunisia. The conference concentrated primarily on the issue of the international workers’ movement and the Arab Spring.
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Palesinian Workers’ Strike at the Salit Quarry – After 1.5 Months: “we will not look backwards! The strike will continue until an agreement would be signed”

פורסם ב August 7, 2011 | No Comments
3,800 protest messages to Salit Via LaborStart – The fight goes on!
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FNV letter of solidarity

פורסם ב July 21, 2011 | No Comments

The Board of FNV Bondgenoten the Netherlands has decided to support the Workers Advice Center in the Salit workers strike, with 2000 EURO.

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Egypt workers flood Tahrir Square for ‘social justice’

פורסם ב May 2, 2011 | No Comments
CAIRO — Thousands of workers packed into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday, demanding social justice in post-revolt Egypt as they celebrate their first Labour Day in three decades without ousted president Hosni Mubarak.
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Founding declaration of new independent trade union federation in Egypt – 30.1.11

פורסם ב February 2, 2011 | No Comments
Egypt is going through historical moments… Its people is courageously struggling to defend the right to live a decent life… the right to dignity, freedom and social justice… to decent opportunities and just pay… to a democratic society for all, offering every single citizen a share in its wealth and GNP… a society that does not allow few to buy private jets whereas the rest of the population cannot even afford public transportation… a society that refuses to pay the top of the pyramid salaries higher thousand of time than minimum wage.
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Discussions between WAC-MAAN representatives and trade unions in the U.S. and Holland

פורסם ב October 16, 2010 | No Comments
WAC-MAAN representatives have recently conducted high level meetings with trade unions in the U.S. and Holland. WAC-MAAN, a relatively new trade union, makes continuous efforts to broaden its international ties and to learn from the experience of the global workers’ movement. The visits were a part of this effort. In September, a WAC-MAAN delegation met with the leadership of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers union (UE) in its central office in Pittsburgh, U.S.A. The UE, an independent union with left-wing views was represented by union president John Hovis, Treasurer Bruce Klipple, Director of international affairs Robin Alexander, Steve Tormey, secretary responsible for General Electric workers and also Bob Kingsley, Joseph Cohen and Salia Warren.
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