Hundreds employees at mobile carrier Cellcom are unionizing, a few months after the well-publicized struggle by Pelephone mobile carrier employees. One of the results of that struggle was the precedent-setting decision by the National Labor Court banning employers from objecting to unionizing by their employees.

Cellcom employees have joined the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor in Israel), and the secret activity has now become open. Histadrut officials arrived on Tuesday at the carrier’s headquarters to openly sign up employees, and sent SMSs and e-mails to employees offering them to join the union online. In addition to recruiting a third of Cellcom’s employees, it must also unionize employees at 013 Netvision which is an integral part of the company. The union must recruit one third of 7,500 employees.

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