[:en]On Tuesday 12.7, the truck drivers of Movilei Dror Company were on a one day strike. The striking drivers staged a picket in two logistic
[:en]Haifa Labor Court Judge Avital Rimon-Kaplan ruled on March 7 that the haulage firm Movilei Dror must negotiate with the workers’ organization WAC-Maan, and said
On Wednesday September 9, 2015, Movilei Dror, one of biggest Road Haulage Companies in Israel, has announced that it will recognize WAC-MAAN as the representative
The independent trade union centre WAC MAAN, representing the truck drivers at Movilei Dror, has declared a labor dispute in this firm on Tuesday, September
They demand their wages are paid as required by law and aim for a collective agreement. On July 23, the Workers Advice Center (WAC-MAAN) notified
In March 2015, having waited four years for their severance pay, seven drivers of the E. Ditsy Trucking Company in Haifa received NIS 330,000 through
Truck drivers must put up with long hours on the road just to make a decent wage. Recent attempts to unionize, though, have been freighted with problems. published in Haaretz, 20.12.2011
At the beginning of June, the court ruled on a petition submitted by the Workers Advice Center (WAC) and drivers from the Hamenia transportation company who had organized with WAC. The ruling on this labor dispute was handed down in the Tel Aviv Regional Labor Court by Judge Michal Levitt. Hamenia, one of the longest-standing companies in haulage in Israel, was adamantly against recognizing WAC’s right to act as a union and even refused to recognize its employees’ membership in the organization, and asked the court to reject the petition and prevent WAC from representing its employees.
Intolerable working conditions and a harmful payment system characterize the situation of drivers employed by trucking companies in Israel. The center of this system is the procedure that allows these companies to pay their drivers not according to actual hours of work but according to the value of the loads they carry. Actually the trucking industry in Israel does not even count the drivers’ hours; thus it diminishes the possibility of a system that would limit driving time, increasing the dangers that go with long hours on the road.
