[:en]In face of the difficult circumstances in Palestine, Israel, and the rest of the Middle East, we adhere strongly to principles of solidarity across national and religious lines. We are convinced that justice will prevail.
In the name of our members and staff I am happy to send you New Year’s greetings with hopes for political and social change in 2016. We wish to thank all of you around the world who collaborated with us in many effective projects and campaigns during this intensive year.
WAC-MAAN is active in the farms, colleges, and factories, organizing Arab and Jewish workers on a platform of justice for all. We are engaged these days in negotiations in the transport industry (representing truck drivers in the Movilei Dror Haulage Co.) and in the Rosh Ha’ayin Music Centre (representing music teachers). We hope to achieve collective agreements in these two sectors and thus make a major leap forward as a union. Our activity in defense of Palestinian workers in the Settlements and East Jerusalem will continue, as will our project called Women and Work, which helps unemployed Arab women to find work with dignity.
As an independent and dynamic trade union centre, WAC-MAAN aims toward ending 48 years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories and achieving peace based on the two-state solution. We oppose all forms of racism, whether based on ethnicity, nationality, or religion.
In face of the difficult circumstances in Palestine, Israel, and the rest of the Middle East, we adhere strongly to principles of solidarity across national and religious lines. We are convinced that justice will prevail.
Let’s work for change until we all make it happen.
Happy New Year
Assaf Adiv
National Director
WAC-MAAN
Follow our activity through our website www.wac-maan.org.il
Or through our Facebook page http://on.fb.me/1m7fAth
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