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Breakthru collective agreement for Israeli building sites: New details
The employment rights of guest workers and Palestinian workers will be protected under a dramatic breakthrough collective agreement for Israeli building sites adopted in January 2010.
Under the first ever national agreement the starting pay for all construction workers on Israeli building sites will now be 19% above the minimum wage.
The global union federation for construction workers – the Building and Wood Workers International – has just released the latest details of a national agreement for all workers on Israeli construction sites.
The announcement is a major challenge to the Israeli right-wing who have campaigned to push all non-Israelis, working in construction, out of the country.
The Histadrut Chairman, Ofer Eini, the President of the Association of Construction and Builders, Nissim Boublil, and the Construction Workers Union Chairman, Yitzhak Moyal, signed a sector collective agreement in the construction sector on January 21, 2010.
The agreement will apply for the first time to all employees in the construction sector. (more)






The Israeli national trade union centre The Histadrut is about to sign a groundbreaking new work agreement covering all construction workers in Israel – whether they are Israelis, foreign guest workers or Palestinians.