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Palestine: Government workers protest against unpaid salaries – again
Government employees in Gaza and the West Bank face continuing delays in getting their salaries paid, and have announced a series of protests. According to the Ma’an News Agency, “Government and public-sector employees announced a two-hour sit in scheduled for Tuesday across the West Bank and Gaza Strip as salaries remain unpaid, the union chief… »
Palestinian trade union leader emerges as a key player
In an extraordinary article for Al Monitor, journalist Daoud Kuttab has profiled Bassam Zakarneh, the leader of the public sector workers union in Palestine. Zakarneh seems to be a new kind of union leader, one who is not afraid to stand up to the politicians who have for decades used trade unions as part of a… »
West Bank health care workers strike – demand payment of salaries on time
First it was the teachers, and now it’s the health care workers in the West Bank who have been forced to take strike action to protest late payment (and sometimes non-payment) of their salaries. The health care workers union has announced a one day strike for Thursday, threatening to shut the entire system down and… »
West Bank teachers suspend strike threat after meeting gov’t officials
The planned strike today by Palestinian teachers in the West Bank was called off following a meeting with government officials who promised to respond to the major demands of the union. (More details can be found on the Ma’an website.) Teachers and other civil servants have been in the forefront on an ongoing dispute with the… »
Another strike by Palestinian civil servants over unpaid wages
Despite the announcement of yet another Saudi grant of millions of dollars, the Palestinian Authority has still not paid the full December salaries to its employees. As a result, the public sector union has announced that it will hold another one-day strike on Wednesday this week (23 January). The Palestinian Authority blames Israel for the… »
Wildcat strikes in the West Bank
This is an interesting development – Palestinian public transport workers going on strike over the high costs of fuel, and their union insisting that the strike was not called by them. More information as we receive… »
In Palestine, teachers strike yet again over unpaid salaries
According to this report on the Ma’an News Agency website, Palestinian teachers in the West Bank are set to strike this week and next to protest the continuing failure by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to pay their salaries. They received only partial payment of their November salaries last month. Though the PA tends to blame… »
General strike by Palestinian teachers over unpaid salaries
The general strike of Palestinian teachers called earlier this week has now broken out, with schools across the West Bank now closing their doors. As we reported, Palestinian teachers are furious at the decision by their employer, the Palestinian Authority (PA) to delay payment of their November salaries. The PA blames Israel and the USA… »
Mass strike by Palestinian teachers protests failure to pay November salaries
The economic crisis in the Palestinian Authority is contributing to a growing wave of worker unrest that has already seen strikes against UNRWA, the UN refugee agency, and private businesses as well. This weekend, over 3,500 teachers went on strike in Nablus and elsewhere, affecting 57,000 students in 166 schools. The teachers were demanding the… »
Palestinian shoe and leather workers go on strike in Nablus
There aren’t as many reports of Palestinian workers going on strike as there are in Israel – in part because of the weakness of the Palestinian economy, and in part because independent trade unions are not tolerated by the Hamas government in Gaza. Nevertheless, from time to time there are strikes in the West Bank,… »