Togod Omer Adam of Sudan and Takalit Rishahi from Eritrea became the first African refugees admitted to the Histadrut Labor Federation as full members, after an agreement was reached on Wednesday, June 13, between the organization and representatives of refugees and activists from Hadash. Thirty mainly Sudanese refugees, whose application to join the Histadrut had…
Thousands of Arabs and Jews, gathered in Nazareth on Saturday morning, April 28, to take part in the city’s annual May Day march organized by Hadash and the Communist Party of Israel (CPI). While keeping with the tradition of commemorating International Workers’ Day, the demonstrators also marched against the occupation as well as Israel’s repression…
Commemorations for this year’s May Day, the International Workers’ Solidarity day, will take place with several rallies and meetings across Israel, including in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Beer-Sheva, Kufr Yassif in the Western Galilee, as well as in various others locations. Activists from Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), the Communist Party of…
The head of the Histadrut Labor Federation’s Jerusalem branch, Daniel Bonfil, declared last week that the union will launch a general strike throughout the city towards the middle of January; this following an announcement by the city’s far-right mayor, Nir Barkat, that more than two thousand municipal workers will be laid off if the city…
Following a stormy debate, the Knesset plenum approved on Wednesday, December 20, the first of three readings of an amendment to the state’s Civil Service Law. The amendment, which was submitted by far-right MK Mordechai Yogev (Habayit Hayehudi) and included complementary proposals initiated by MKs Hamad Amar (Yisrael Beiteinu) and Anat Berko (Likud), passed by…
Large swaths of Israel’s capitalist economy were shut down on Sunday morning, December 17, as result of a general solidarity strike declared by the Histadrut Labor Federation over plans by the pharmaceutical giant Teva to lay off some 1,750 employees in Israel. On Sunday morning, Teva employees gathered outside the pharmaceutical company’s offices in Jerusalem,…
Teva Pharmaceuticals, the largest generic-drug company in the world, announced on Thursday, December 14, that it will lay off nearly 25% of its global workforce, or some 14,000 people, within the next two years. 1,750 of the employees to be fired will come from the company’s workforce in Israel. Two of the company’s Israeli facilities…
Less than a week before it was scheduled to take place, far-right Education Minister Naftali Bennett cancelled the participation of his ministry in a seminar on workers’ rights organized in conjunction with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). The seminar was scheduled to take place on Wednesday, November 29, towards commemoration of this…
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., the world’s largest manufacturer of generic medicines, plans to fire as much as 25% of its Israeli workforce, according to the daily business newspaper Globes. The new streamlining plan will involve the company shedding an additional 20% of its workforce worldwide with most dismissals expected in the US and Europe. Before…
Since 2016 there has been a steep increase in the number of Ukrainians and Georgians applying for asylum in Israel. Data collected by the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants (HRM) shows that Israeli entities, including human resource companies, play an important part in this phenomenon by spreading misinformation in the Ukraine and Georgia about the…