The banning of 200,000 Palestinian workers from working in Israel has become a political contention point of the extreme right wing ministers who want to use the war in Gaza to implement their racist agenda.
The arrangements for Palestinian construction workers to enter Israel came
WAC MAAN continues to be a leading factor in a
[:en]
The recent public campaign against accidents within the construction industry has created new possibilities for change and for workers’ empowerment.
[:de]
[:]
[:en]
On Sunday, December 13, 2015, the Israeli daily Calcalist (Yediot Aharonot’s economic supplement) published an article that announced the failure of the deal between Israel and China, which had been slated to allow the importation of 20,000 Chinese workers as bonded labour to work in the Israeli construction industry.
[:de]
[:]
The unprecedented conference gave voice to the union’s demands for change in safety procedures at construction sites.
And once again the darkness is so deep, no light can drive it back. And the abyss is so dark, so mute and echoing, it swallows her up and wraps her in eternal silence. This is Salima, 62 years old, from Um al-Fahm. That night, five years ago, when cars converged on her humble home and the grandchildren alighted, she knew that Ahmed, one of her eight children, was no more. Five days of intensive care had stopped time in its tracks. Hope had not survived.
The Israeli building contractors got what they wanted when the government decided in July to increase migrant laborer quotas for the construction sector
Behind the interior minister’s demagoguery lies an attempt to help building contractors by replacing Africans with more profitable Chinese labor. Published in Haaretz, on 17 June.
