Yair Lapid had hardly settled into his Knesset seat before the Finance Ministry declared war on the ultra-Orthodox, on the Histadrut, on the monopolies – in short, a world war. What the father Tommy began with Netanyahu in 2003, the…
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Social protest leaders are losing their way
Anything but politics! This was the protest movement’s strategy from the start. Not right, not left, and above all, almost every politician that came to visit the tent encampment on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard was unceremoniously ejected. The marketing strategy…
Histadrut unaffected by Arab winds of change
Ofer Eini and the Histadrut are deaf to the voices of change calling from Cairo and the Arab world. Unions around the world identify with the new forces, leaving the conservative Histadrut alone in its corner. Hussein Mugawer was recently…
The Social Workers’ Strike: A Setback with Important Lessons
The social workers’ strike ended in disappointment. (See Background article.) After the momentum gathered by thousands of social workers who took to the streets for 23 days, there is the feeling of a squandered opportunity. The agreement forced upon them by…
Politics at the Workers’ Expense
Histadrut Chairman Ofer Eini is trying to deceive us all. On Nov. 2 he signed a two-year wage agreement and canceled a general strike, thus supporting the Netanyahu-Barak coalition in a very tangible way. The following day he came out…
Empowering the Weaker Workers in Israel, 2009
A discussion on ways to defend and organize groups of workers who are subject to exploitation and discrimination in the Israeli labor market, including Arabs, migrants, women and youth. The following is a synopsis of the talks that were given…
Post Zionist Israel: The Rules Have Changed
Adapted from a paper discussed at the annual seminar of the Organization for Democratic Action, October 2007 DURING the past thirty years, but especially in the last decade, Israel has undergone major economic change. Ownership of the economy has shifted…