First of May 2011: Marching for Equality and Social Justice
Arab and Jewish Workers in Solidarity with our brothers in Cairo, Tunis and Damascus
26/04/2011
Arab and Jewish Workers in Solidarity with our brothers in Cairo, Tunis and Damascus
Jaida Zo’obi, In charge of Women capacity building in The Workers Advice Center (WAC-Ma’an) participated in events to celebrate International Women Day in Barcelona and its regions.
The Workers Advice Center (WAC-Ma’an) unequivocally supports the social workers in their strike for improved employment terms. Their struggle highlights the distorted employment policies in Israel during the last 25 years. These policies are guided by a neo-liberal worldview which sees the organization of workers as a grave impediment which must be banished from society and the economy. At the center of the social workers’ struggle is the demand that employment terms for those employed via private NGOs and manpower agencies – about one third of all social workers (some 5,000 of 17,000) – be made equal to those employed directly by the Welfare Ministry and are thus public sector employees.
WAC-MAAN representatives have recently conducted high level meetings with trade unions in the U.S. and Holland. WAC-MAAN, a relatively new trade union, makes continuous efforts to broaden its international ties and to learn from the experience of the global workers’ movement. The visits were a part of this effort. In September, a WAC-MAAN delegation met with the leadership of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers union (UE) in its central office in Pittsburgh, U.S.A. The UE, an independent union with left-wing views was represented by union president John Hovis, Treasurer Bruce Klipple, Director of international affairs Robin Alexander, Steve Tormey, secretary responsible for General Electric workers and also Bob Kingsley, Joseph Cohen and Salia Warren.
WAC addressed a letter to Israel Museum’s director on August 12, on behalf of 20 teachers working in the museum’s youth department
TUAC Secretariat Report to the OECD 10-01-tuacdoc-israel-en.pdf To John Evans,
The next stage: organizing workers During the last annual general
[:en]by Hen Shemesh Receurrent complaints on illegal sanctions against employees
