Arab and Ethiopian women in Israel earn less than half of the national average salary and are the most disadvantaged groups in the country’s job market, according to a survey of minorities in the labor market released on Monday, February 18. Overall, women’s salaries are 59% of men’s salaries in Israel, the survey found. The…
A school in a West Bank settlement recently fired its Arab cleaning staff, all of them Israeli citizens, after parents threatened to shut down the school if the workers remained employed. Parents in the settlement of Karnei Shomron appealed last week to the head of the local council, Yigal Lahav, and threatened to invoke a…
The National Union of Students announced on Saturday evening, November 10, that starting Monday the 12th students at eight public colleges throughout Israel will launch a strike in support of senior staff at these institutions of higher learning whose own strike entered its fourth week on Sunday. About 30,000 students have not been able to…
The unions of junior academic staff at public colleges announced a strike on Sunday morning, October 21, in an effort to improve their members’ employment conditions. The colleges on strike include Sapir College, Kinneret College, Ruppin Academic Center, the Kibbutzim College, the Holon Institute of Technology, Achva Academic College, the Tel Hai Academic College and…
The junior staffs at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University began open-ended strikes on Sunday, October 14, over pay and working conditions. The organizers of the strike in the Negev university released the following statement on Saturday evening: “The Association of Junior Academic Staff at Ben-Gurion University has announced that commencing Sunday,…
Israel’s largest workers union, the Histadrut Labor Federation, is planning a labor dispute and is considering calling a general strike in early October following the latest in a rash of construction site accidents which have resulted in the death of dozens of workers since January of this year. On August 14, two workers fell to…
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…