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Hatem Abu Ziadeh (Photo courtesy of WAC-MAAN)
How to stop Palestinians unionizing: Security, security, security
When Palestinian workers at the Tzarfati garage in the West Bank settlement of Mishor Adumim unionized, management made up criminal accusations against the Palestinian chairman of the workers’ committee, exploiting the hostile war-time environment at the time. Management brought in the army, the police, and sent him to military court — resulting in the revocation…
By +972 Magazine January 28, 2015
(Illustrative photo by Shutterstock.com)
Kicking the neoliberal habit
After the 2008 global financial crisis, some of Israel’s neo-liberal fundamentalists sobered up from capitalist dogmatism and became ‘social.’ This led them to discovering Scandinavia, and lately they have been busy marketing a biased and union-free capitalist version of the ‘Nordic Model’ in Israel as well. By Yossi Dahan (Translated from Hebrew by Orna Meir-Stacey,  Edited by…
By Haokets April 12, 2014
Social workers' strike for better working conditions in 2011 (Oren Ziv / Activestills)
Haaretz’s financial paper doesn’t hide its anti-union agenda
TheMarker journalists toy with statistics to reverse the correlation between cause and effect, portraying unions, once again, as protectors of the privileged. TheMarker, Haaretz’s economic supplement (which over the last several years has gained a life of its own), is at it again. A report and corresponding article (only the latter of which made it online in…
By Haggai Matar November 15, 2013
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Employees of the Israeli newspaper Maariv protest against their dismissal inside Azriely commercial center on their way to the IDB offices, Tel Aviv, 20 September 2012. The daily has been sold by debt-strapped IDB Group to publisher Shlomo Ben-Tzvi who also owns the right-wing newspaper Makor Rishon and who agreed to take only 300-400 of Maariv's nearly 2,000 employees. (photo: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)
Israeli daily: We let reporter go because he isn’t a Zionist
Did Haggai Matar lose his job at ‘Maariv’ because of his political views, or was it his involvement in the paper’s union that led management to order his dismissal? Israeli daily Maariv filed a statement to the Tel Aviv District Labor Court claiming that the paper chose not to rehire Tel Aviv municipal reporter Haggai…
By Noam Sheizaf June 9, 2013
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