Subject to below minimum wage jobs, no pay slips, and arbitrary layoffs in Israeli settlements, Palestinian women under occupation are learning more about their rights and are beginning to unionize.
50 Palestinian workers in a food plant in Atarot Industrial Zone go on strike
The workers seek to negotiate a collective agreement guaranteeing a raise in salary and improved working conditions
Palestinians strike for right to join their chosen union
For decades Palestinian workers in Israel and the Israeli settlements have had very limited freedom of association.
Israeli Company Fined for Paying Palestinian Workers 9 Shekels an Hour
Company operating in the West Bank fined 507,000 shekels (US$144,000) after a Labor and Social Affairs Ministry investigation.
WAC-MAAN – A decade of organising Palestinian workers in the West Bank settlements
The independent trade union centre WAC-MAAN releases a comprehensive report summarising ten years of struggle to organise Palestinian workers in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
