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National Labor Court mandates Antiquities Authority to hire excavation workers as regular employees

The last few days have seen a successful end to a long legal battle over demands to instate excavation workers as regular employees of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). About three years ago, dozens working for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) at the archaeological site of Ras al-Amud near Jerusalem were summoned by a representative of Brik, the personnel firm through which they were employed. He told them that all who had worked for more than nine months would not be hired in the future. Four days later, workers at the Um Tuba site, all Brik employees, were told the same thing. None received a letter of dismissal.

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15/02/2012

Palestinian Workers

The Salit workers’ struggle – achievements and limitations

Following a prolonged struggle and a three-month-long strike during the last summer the Salit quarry was declared bankrupt and placed in the head of the receivers. On 12 December 2011 the Jerusalem District court gave its imprimatur to a creditors’ arrangement for the quarry. The settlement ensured financial compensation to the employees but enabled the construction companies to take over the quarry without any commitment to employ the workers. Notwithstanding the Israeli institutional indifference to the fate of the Palestinian workers, the Salit employees and the Workers Advice Center (WAC-MAAN) succeeded in demonstrating the power of cross-border solidarity. There are some important lessons embedded in this historical and ongoing struggle.

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16/01/2012

After a strike of three months, the struggle waged by Salit Quarry workers enters a new stage

After a strike lasting almost three months, Salit Quarries has ceased operations. The Jerusalem Regional Court has appointed a trustee to manage the quarry for the time being. The quarry owners, who tried to break the strike by every possible means and compel them to continue their work under humiliating conditions, declared that they are facing bankruptcy. The workers, and the Workers Advice Center (WAC-Maan) which represented them, see the end of this stage of the hard struggle in a positive light, and are preparing for the next stage: the struggle to protect the workers’ rights, whether by compensation for dismissal or by employment with the potential new owners. During the period of the strike, WAC-Maan managed to raise a strike fund which granted each worker NIS 1,850.

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14/09/2011

Breaking News: A new stage in the strike of the Salit Quarry workers

After two and half months of striking at the Salit Quarry, we are approaching a critical junction. On Monday August 29th the Jerusalem District Court held a session to discuss a request from Salit Quarry to appoint a lawyer as a Trustee for the Quarry in order to protect it from the banks and other creditors whose bills have not been paid.

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01/09/2011

In between laws: Palestinian workers strike at Salit Quarry

A group of 42 Palestinians are in their second month of a strike at the Salit Quarry, an Israeli-managed mine associated with Mishor Adumim, the industrial zone of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement of the West Bank.
The workers’ demands are fairly basic: reasonable salaries, regular, monthly pay slips and safe, healthy working conditions.
Though there are an estimated 300,000 Palestinians working in Israeli settlements, this organized strike—in which West Bank Palestinian employees are demanding fair treatment under Israeli law—is the first of its kind.

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07/08/2011

‘When you’ve sold the camel, don’t fret about the reins’

Haj Muhammad Fukara is the living spirit of the ongoing strike at the Salit quarry. For 27 of his 52 years he has worked here, almost from the day it was opened beside his family’s shacks. These are in a wadi near Mishor Adumim, a few miles east of Jerusalem. Fukara has always known the place as Khan al-Akhmar, the Red Caravanserai.

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25/07/2011

The Salit Strike enters its 2nd Month: Solidarity with the Palestinian Workers Grows

On Friday July 8, at 9 a.m., a delegation from the quarry management came to the protest tent at the entrance to the Salit Quarries premises, bringing envelopes containing checks for the workers’ June wages. According to Israeli law, monthly wages must be paid by the 9th day of the following month. The quarry management, which for 24 days has refused to negotiate with the Workers Advice Center (WAC-Ma’an), initially gave the impression that it would meet its legal obligations and pay wages in time. Because the workers have been striking since June 16, these wages are from the first part of June. The withholding of wages is liable to result in fines and other penalties for the management.

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14/07/2011

Palestinian workers at Salit Quarries make history

Israeli employers, Palestinian workers and an Arab-Jewish union: Workers at Salit Quarries demand basic, fair employment terms, but the quarry management says their claims are childish. The first organized labor dispute in the West Bank is coming to a head – is this ideological adventurism or a revolutionary precedent?

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30/06/2011

The Palestinian workers in Salit Quarry need your support!

WAC does not have a strike fund. We do not know how long the strike will last but we would like to have some emergency funds to give the workers in case the strike continues for over a week. If money will arrive after the strike ends it will be put in a special strike fund for future struggles.

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20/06/2011

Salit Quarry: Palestinians working in insufferable conditions demand fair employment terms

For 27 years, since Salit Quarries began operating in the occupied West Bank under the ownership of Jews from Jerusalem, it has employed Palestinian workers from the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Though quarrying sand and gravel from the desert Mountains just 10 km east of Jerusalem has brought considerable profit to the owners, the workers have been employed under exploitative terms and with insufficient safety standards. Until the workers began organizing with WAC (in May 2007), the West Bank workers were employed without pay slips and without pension insurance. No tests had been carried out to ascertain the affect of the dust on the workers’ health, and there were no facilities such as a dining room, washrooms or water cooler though the quarry is located in an isolated arid region. Following claims and pressure from WAC and the workers, the quarry agreed to some improvements.

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19/06/2011

Palestinian Workers

National Labor Court mandates Antiquities Authority to hire excavation workers as regular employees

The Salit workers’ struggle – achievements and limitations

After a strike of three months, the struggle waged by Salit Quarry workers enters a new stage

Breaking News: A new stage in the strike of the Salit Quarry workers

In between laws: Palestinian workers strike at Salit Quarry

‘When you’ve sold the camel, don’t fret about the reins’

The Salit Strike enters its 2nd Month: Solidarity with the Palestinian Workers Grows

Palestinian workers at Salit Quarries make history

The Palestinian workers in Salit Quarry need your support!

Salit Quarry: Palestinians working in insufferable conditions demand fair employment terms

אנא כתבו את שמכם המלא, טלפון ותיאור קצר של נושא הפנייה, ונציג\ה של מען יחזרו אליכם בהקדם האפשרי.

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