According to this report in Ha’aretz, Israel’s national trade union centre “declared a labor dispute on Thursday because of what it said are an increasing number of outsourced workers and nonprofit organizations providing services for municipal governments. . . . …
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Israel: Port workers union leader, accused of corruption, steps down
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Alon Hassan, the head of the powerful port workers union in Israel, has stepped down from his post following allegations of corruption. According to this report in the Times of Israel, it has been alleged “that companies owned by Hassan,…
Israel: Breakthrough as young workers at McDonald’s unionize
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According to this report on the website of the International Union of Food workers (IUF), “The largest youth employees’ committee of Israel was established on June 3 and thousands of McDonald’s employees have joined the ‘Histadrut Working and Studying Youth…
ITUC report: “enforcement of labour law - weak”, “breaches of labour law - common” in Israel
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The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has just released its Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights. The report, which covers nearly every country in the world, offers a scathing critique of labour rights in Israel — particularly the…
Netanyahu surprises Histadrut and his own ministers with proposed new anti-strike laws
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According to this report in the daily business newspaper Globes, the Netanyahu government is proposing new legislation that will restrict workers’ right to strike in certain sectors. Among those being targetted are port workers, the electricity company, the railways and…
Another organizing win for the Histadrut - in the Knesset
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Parliamentary aides in Israel, as in other countries, often work long hours for little pay. This week, aides to members of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, announced that they had formed a trade union affiliated to the Histadrut, the country’s national…
Netanyahu “calls in the army to bust strike” - not in the ports, but in the foreign service
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The ongoing dispute between employees of Israel’s Foreign Ministry and the government has now led to charges that Netanyahu is using an Israeli military attache to arrange his trip to Warsaw — effectively deploying a serving officer in the Israel…
Eini to Netanyahu: Bring your ministers under control - and apologize to us
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In an extraordinary letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel’s trade union movement Ofer Eini has publicly called for Netanyahu to reign in ministers such as Naftali Bennett who have recently taken to using extreme language in…
Netanyahu’s Minister of the Economy ramps up the rhetoric - jokes about ‘exterminating’ port workers
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It started with a secret plan to bring in troops to break a potential port strike. That was followed by threats to move work to ports in neighboring countries. But now Netanyahu’s far-right Minister of the Economy, Naftali Bennett, has gone…
Transportation Minister: We’ll use ports in Jordan, Greece, Cyprus or Turkey to break union
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Following up on reports earlier this week that the Israeli government was considering using Israel Defense Forces troops to break a potential port workers strike, the Transportation Minister Israel Katz now says that there are other options as well. According…