Palestinian trade unions call on our counterparts internationally and all people of conscience to end all forms of complicity with Israel’s crimes - most urgently halting the arms trade with Israel, as well as all funding and military research.
The reality of Gaza workers under Israeli siege and the spread of Covid–19
Statement from the Union of Independent Labor Committees, Gaza – Palestine
Israel’s Violations of Palestinian Workers’ Rights: COVID-19 and Systemic Abuse
The Israeli regime has been systematically violating the rights of Palestinian workers in Israel and its illegal settlements since 1967. How have these violations been exacerbated since the COVID-19 pandemic? This article examines Israel’s ongoing abuses of Palestinian workers’ labour and human rights.
Call to Action from Palestine Trade Unions
Palestinian trade unions and workers’ organisations across historic Palestine are calling on our brothers and sisters in the global trade union movement to take immediate action in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice.
Palestinian workers: Caught between military occupation and unemployment
“The Palestinian labour market continues to present a grim picture. Unemployment is rampant and protection failing. Stifled by occupation, it can meet neither the needs nor the aspirations of the Palestinian people.” - Guy Ryder, ITUC Director-General
On the brink again, says ILO
The situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories - Annual report to the 2019 International Labour Conference.
A new trade union established in Gaza
“It was necessary to establish a union for female hairdressers and beauty salons workers, as they are exposed to numerous violations of their rights and suffer from bad working conditions."
A woman’s place is in her union
Women in Palestine, as anywhere across the globe, are subjected to, and daily resisting, an intricate, mutually reinforcing web of state, social, economic and domestic violence and oppression, continuously violating their rights. The burden of Israeli occupation weighs therefore on many more layers on the daily lives of Palestinian woman than their male counterparts.
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