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Run out of town for teaching farm workers their rights
Labor advocates set out to explain to Thai agricultural workers what rights they have in Israel. Instead, they are intimidated and chased away by the workers’ employers. By Angie Hsu In the rush before leaving Tel Aviv for the Arava Desert Friday morning, I ran into the bathroom and grabbed two bottles of sunscreen. It…
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March 11, 2017
Denying Palestinian laborers access to justice
A new Israeli labor regulation continues a trend of increasingly suspending rule of law for Palestinians in the West Bank, in this case leading to further segregation in access the courts. By Sawsan Zaher In the Israeli economy, dirty, difficult, and dangerous jobs often are left to some 170,000 foreign workers, among them 55,000 Palestinian workers from the West Bank.…
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September 30, 2016
WATCH: Arab women speak out over labor exploitation
Four years ago, the State of Israel introduced a plan to increase the percentage of working Arab women in order to lift them out of poverty. But did that plan actually work?
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April 11, 2016
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Employer turns Palestinian union organizer into a ‘security threat’
Hatem Abu Ziadeh spent almost 20 years working at an auto repair shop in a West Bank industrial zone. But once he began organizing workers for better conditions, he was fired for ‘security-based reasons.’ In many respects, this is a painfully simple and well-known story: a veteran factory worker decides to unionize his fellow workers…
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Haggai Matar
February 16, 2016
Court denies equal rights to Palestinian workers in Israeli industrial zone
National Labor Court rules that unlike their fellow Israeli workers, Palestinians in a no-man’s land industrial zone will remain subject to the Jordanian labor laws of 1967. Israel’s National Labor Court rejected an appeal by Palestinian workers from the Nitzanei Shalom Industrial Zone this past Sunday, ruling that they will continue to be subject to the…
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Haggai Matar
July 23, 2015
Risking jobs, Palestinian workers in West Bank settlement unionize
When the Palestinian workers at a West Bank aluminum factory tried to unionize, the management responded with a resounding no. Nearly half of the 65 workers at the MS Aluminum Ltd. factory, located in the Israeli-run Mishor Adumim industrial zone in the West Bank, unionized last week after joining the Workers Advice Center (WAC-MAAN). According to…
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Haggai Matar
January 22, 2015
Home Field – Visiting agricultural workers in Israel, part 5
In a series of posts based on field visits and meetings with migrant workers in Israel, Noa Shauer and Shiraz Grinbaum highlight the conditions, hardships and exploitation of foreign workers. In part 5, they met with agricultural workers in the northern Israeli moshavim of Sdei Trumot and Revayah, trying to re-evaluate their working conditions after…
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Activestills
June 1, 2014
WATCH: Court rebukes state archeology body for labor abuse
When the Israel Antiquities Authority hired a manpower company to provide workers for its excavation sites, it ended up abusing the temporary workers’ rights by firing them after a number of months. The workers, however, went to court to demand they be hired as permanent employees — and won.
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Social TV
May 26, 2013
Union seeks to organize truckers to challenge sub-standard labor conditions
The solitary work of a trucker entails long hours, poor pay and dangerous conditions. One trade union is attempting to organize drivers in a sector which is crucial to the Israeli economy. By Alon Aviram Haifa – At the largest of Israel’s seaports, heavy haulage trucks operate day and night, continuously working to transport imports…
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December 21, 2012
The Wall, 10 years on / part 8: A working class under siege
The wall was built to stop suicide bombers from entering Israel, so they say. But the people who do enter Israel on a daily basis are the tens of thousands of Palestinians who work here. Some go through hours of waiting at checkpoints, others climb the wall and risk injury or arrest – but all…
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Haggai Matar
June 1, 2012
Focusing on Sarah Netanyahu, the media misses the story
Do Sarah Netanyahu’s scandals serve as a lightning rod for her husband? They are, after all, business partners Mrs. Sarah Netanyahu, as she demands others refer to her, was once again in the midst of another scandal this week. This time, the claims were she was treating her old father’s caregiver, Nepalese Tara Kumeri, like…
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Yossi Gurvitz
September 2, 2011
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