Workers from the privatized Haifa Chemicals company have erected protest tents and occupied factories in Haifa Bay in recent months. On August 24, dozens of Haifa Chemicals workers picketed outside the Haifa Labor Court over their impending layoff. At the request of the employees, a special hearing was being held to determine the fate of…
Scores of communist and workers’ parties from around the world issued the following communique last week. The Communist and Workers’ Parties denounce the anti-communist fiesta being organized by the Estonian Presidency of the European Union (EU), in the framework of the so-called “European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Totalitarian Regimes” which the EU…
Three construction workers were killed within five hours on Thursday, August 17, at three different building sites in Israel. A 16-year-old laborer, Hussein Amarah, was killed when scaffolding upon which several workers were sitting collapsed and fell at a site on Silver Street in the northern city of Nahariya. A second worker, a 29-year-old man,…
Israel’s far-right government unanimously approved on Sunday, August 13, a three-month back-to-work emergency ordinance forcing 50 employees at Dimona’s Negev Nuclear Research Center to return to their jobs. The request for an emergency restraining order by the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) against the striking workers came after three months of job actions that caused…
Workers from the privatized Haifa Chemicals company erected protest tents and occupied factories in Haifa Bay and the Negev on Tuesday evening, August 1, both inside and outside the company plants, after it was announced earlier in the day that the these facilities were to be closed and 1,200 employees were being laid off. In…
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries announced on Sunday, July 23, its intention to lay off workers at two Israeli factories, and will be firing both regular employees and managerial staff at its Kfar Saba and Ramat Hovav-based Teva Tech facilities over the coming months. While Teva did not reveal how many of the company’s 7,000 Israeli employees…
The Knesset Labor, Welfare and Health Committee approved on Wednesday, June 10, an ordinance that will allow fining contractors for safety failures found at their construction sites. The maximum sum of such fines would be NIS 35,280 (approximately $10,000). CEOs of construction companies that fail to correct safety deficiencies will be personally fined up to…
A crowd of thousands, Arabs and Jews, gathered in Nazareth on Saturday morning, April 29, to take part in the city’s annual May Day march. As well as marking International Workers’ Day, the demonstrators marched against the occupation and the government’s repression of Palestinians and the neo-liberal social and economic policies of Netanyahu’s far-right government.…
Palestinian workers entering Israel through the Eyal Checkpoint on Thursday morning, April 27, probably hadn’t expected to be handed flowers by members of the Knesset. But that’s exactly what happened at 5am on Thursday morning at one of the busiest checkpoints for Palestinian laborers from the occupied territories who cross into Israel each morning for…
The general strike of the entire public sector that had been planned for Tuesday, April 25, was called off late Monday afternoon after an agreement was reached between the Histadrut and the Finance Ministry guaranteeing the continued employment for personnel of the soon to be dissolved Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA). According to Histadrut, the Finance…