Alon Hassan, head of the Ashdod port workers’ union, stepped down from his post several months ago following extensive and widely-publicized allegations of corruption. Hassan was accused of owning companies that made deals with port owners. The Histadrut, Israel’s national…
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Israeli port strike coming up?
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According to this report in the Jerusalem Post, Israel’s national labour court is due to rule in the next few days on whether the port workers union can legally strike. The union, backed by the Histadrut labour federation, is opposing…
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…
Israel: Ports battle shaping up as gov’t threatens ‘war’ on workers, threatens to deploy army as strike-breakers
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The language of Israel’s new finance minister Yair Lapid couldn’t be clearer: “Let there be war.” Lapid was referring to the impending battle over privatisation of Israel’s state owned ports. Unions are defending the port workers and especially their right…
Israeli port workers go on strike - Histadrut calls for “relentless struggle” for wage increase
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According to a report in today’s Jerusalem Post, port workers in Haifa, Ashdod and Eilat began an open ended strike action today. The Post reports that “the decision to strike after negotiations between the chairman of the Histadrut trade union…