Labor dispute declared in all Israeli airlines

The Histadrut labor federation laid the groundwork Monday for an airlines strike, declaring a labor dispute in all Israeli airlines: El Al, Arkia and Israir less than 24 hours after a port workers’ strike ended. The Histadrut also declared labor disputes at the Israel National Roads Company, Educational Television (Channel 23) and the Petah-Tikva Municipality…

All port workers go on strike

The port workers’ union and the Histadrut Labor Federation announced on Sunday morning that ports in Ashdod, Haifa and Eilat will be going on strike with no set timeframe after negotiations over pension funds failed to yield results. The most important employers’ organization, the Israel’s Manufacturers’ Association, has motioned the National Labor Court to issue…

Palestinian killed in Qalandia checkpoint; Hebron: MK Barakeh injured during a demonstration

Thousands of Palestinians, Israelis and international peace activists, among them Palestinian and Israeli communists, rallied in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, commemorating the anniversary of a deadly shooting in Hebron’s mosque. The protesters demanded the city’s main thoroughfare be reopened after Israeli forces shut it off shortly after extremist settler Baruch…

MK Khenin: Gov’t failing to protect Mediterranean Sea

Environmental groups warned government continues to favor capitalist interests over public ones, shoreline and sea’s conservation. “The government has failed, yet again, to protect the seas from pollution in 2011,” a report by the Zalul Environmental Association told the Knesset Environmental Committee last week.  The environmental group’s report, titled “Sea Situation” accused the government of…