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Posts Tagged ‘Labour’

Make a difference in Gaza: launch of worker solidarity fund

By Guest Post • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

Sawt el-Amel launches worker to worker solidarity fund
www.gaza-worker-fund.org
…Thousands of workers from Gaza spent years working for private Israeli employers…When the Gaza Strip was sealed off, they lost their jobs, and the money owed to them, without any compensation…Today they are trapped in Gaza, unemployed, their families dependent on foreign aid…Sawt el-Amel is taking their cases [...]

Sawt el-Amal (the Laborer's Voice) No Bread and No Roses, Arab Women Textile Workers in the Galilee

By Mary Rizzo • Oct 11th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

In the past decade, more than 30,000 textile workers lost their jobs in the Israeli textile industry, and most of them are Arab women. In the first half of 2008, another 850 employees were made redundant as a result of the continued outsourcing of textile manufacturing to cheap-labour countries and the [...]