For decades Palestinian workers in Israel and the Israeli settlements have had very limited freedom of association.
Describing Yassin’s death as an accident is a distortion of the truth because an accident is an unexpected event, and nothing in Israel is more predictable than the death of construction workers.
This report describes the employment model of Palestinian construction sector workers in Israel.
Given the right of our people to practice all forms of national struggle against the Israeli occupation, we, the undersigned, assert our unwavering commitment to the call of Palestinian civil society for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel (BDS).
History of Palestinian labour movement.
Union news in March has seen the leader of the Israeli trade union movement, the Histadrut, say that the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel is "doing a good job all over the world." The Gaza Truck Drivers Union called strike action against the Israeli decision on 2 March to permanently close … Continue reading Boycott call ‘doing a good job’
While the Israeli trade union federation, the Histadrut, maintains its public stance that “we believe that conflicts are solved by dialogue and negotiations, and not by boycotts,” another story is offered by Irit Rosenblum in respected Israeli newspaper Haaretz on 30 May. View the AUSPalestine NEWS page for the article on 30 May.
AUSPalestine 