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Trade union leaders from three continents have announced the launch of a new global movement "to challenge the apologists for Hamas and Hizbollah in the labour movement" and to fight for a two-state solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The movement is called TULIP - Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine. [Read more]TULIP FATAH
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Basic freedoms and rights violated for Palestinian and Israeli academic workers
Education unions are warning that academic freedom and the professional rights of higher education workers in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza are increasingly under assault as a result of the continuing political conflict in the region. Unions must work with Israeli and Palestinian colleagues to improve their rights A new report on working conditions… »
Fatah will not interfere in January 5, Journalist Union elections
Fatah will respect the decision of the members of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate and the results of their upcoming election, according to reported comments by a member of the Fatah Central Committee, Mahmud Al-Aloul. The union elections being held are the first in over a decade, and come after considerable controversy about the arrest warrant… »
Strike by workers at UN agency for Palestinian refugees
More than 16,000 employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) held a one-day strike on Tuesday (Nov 17 2009) in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to demand better pay, their union said. A further 14,000 observed a two-hour stoppage in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, said Adel Eid, who… »
UNRWA criticises worker unions ahead of regional work stoppage
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on Monday criticised a workers’ union decision to stage work stoppages today, calling on staff not to deny refugees access to services, the Jordan Times reports today. Staff unions in the agency’s five fields of operation (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza… »
UNRWA Palestinian refugee agency hit by more industrial disputes
Union members working for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) are threatening to re-ignite mass protests in the coming week in the agency’s five fields of operation (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank). The latest protests are part of an on-going dispute which has… »