McDonald’s workers in Israel demand their rights

Just days after the young workers at Israel’s Burger Ranch fast-food chain organized themselves, the Labor Union for Youth in the Histadrut (Federation of Labor in Israel), announced last week that within less than a day they had succeeded in signing up enough workers at McDonald’s to set up a workers’ union there as well.…

Netanyahu pushes anti-strike bill

The Prime Minister’s Office said that Prime Minister’s Office director general Harel Locker convened a meeting at his office to examining imposing “an arbitration obligation before a strike” at vital services. “The matter is on the agenda and is a top priority,” officials in the Prime Minister’s Office said. The office also said that Locker…

Lapid booed by thousands at Tel-Aviv Pride Parade

Thousands gathered at Tel Aviv’s annual gay pride parade greeted Finance Minister Yair Lapid with boos, chanting, “There is no future with Bibi and Lapid!” in a reference to Lapid’s party name, Yesh Atid, that means “There is a future.” Lapid was interrupted by thousands of yells and cries as he tried to speak. When…

Netanyahu calls in the army to bust strike in Foreign Ministry

Foreign Ministry employees, who are protesting their salary conditions, are angry at the Prime Minister’s Bureau for turning to IDF military attache to help arrange cabinet ministers’ trip to Poland. According to “Haaretz”, with Foreign Ministry employees on strike, senior officials in the Prime Minister’s Bureau asked a military attache to arrange an upcoming visit…

Unemployment jumps to 7%

The unemployment rate in Israel jumped to 6.9% of the civilian workforce in April 2013 from 6.6% in March, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported on Friday. The number of unemployed rose to 252,000 in April, out of a labor force of 3.67 million. The unemployment rate of men rose to 7% in April from…