4 March 2014 [from Daily Star Lebanon]: GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Palestinian civil servants called on the Gaza Strip’s Hamas government Monday to pay them full salaries, the clearest sign yet that Egypt’s blockade of the territory is making it increasingly difficult for the Islamist militants to govern. The civil servants are considered Hamas sympathizers … Continue reading Gaza public workers demand Hamas pay salaries in full
UNRWA Staff Union strike ends
11 February 2014: Palestinian employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) had been on strike for over two months in protest of low salaries and UNRWA policies regarding employees who are detained by the Israeli military. Ongoing protests across the Palestinian territories have targeted UNRWA after layoffs and service reductions. … Continue reading UNRWA Staff Union strike ends
Workers’ education in Palestine
By Wajid Elayassa, Democracy and Workers' Rights Centre (DWRC), Palestine In McGill Journal of Education, Vol.48, No.3 (Fall 2013) Due to the political context and the restrictions placed on general freedoms and trade union activities, workers’ education in Palestine remained informal and largely reliant on oral memory until the early 1990s. For decades, it was … Continue reading Workers’ education in Palestine
Solidarity
Today, 29 November, is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is observed by the United Nations on or around 29 November each year, in accordance with mandates given by the General Assembly in its resolutions 32/40 B of 2 December 1977, 34/65 D … Continue reading Solidarity
International union action against G4S
October 2013 | via Global BDS Movement and Electronic Intifada Trade union action across the UK and Europe has seen a major backlash against international security company, G4S, a company that provides private security services to Israeli prisons and the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. NORWAY: Norwegian union ends G4S contract … Continue reading International union action against G4S
Dutch trade unions organise BDS conference
7 October 2013 | via bdsmovement.net On 28 September 2013, in Utrecht, the Dutch trade union ABVAKABO-FNV, together with the Dutch organisations Cordaid, A Different Jewish Voice, PalestineLink, Workgroup Palestine Kairos Netherlands, DocP and the Foundation XminY, organised a conference to generate additional momentum for the successful and growing Dutch and European movement for boycott, … Continue reading Dutch trade unions organise BDS conference
Kav LaOved: Israeli Employers in the Occupied Territories
Non-Enforcement of the Law on Israeli Employers in the Occupied Territories: A selective list of Israeli companies violating Palestinian workers' rights
Infographic: 20 years of Oslo
13 September 2013 | via Al Jazeera | Ben White The accords have sped up Israeli colonisation and cemented an apartheid regime of control and discrimination. This Friday will mark 20 years to the day since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chair Yasser Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn, signing an … Continue reading Infographic: 20 years of Oslo
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