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Airport union chief and Likud party member Pinchas Idan at the Elections Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 5, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
August 23, 2026, 2:51 am
IAA chair said looking to fire airport labor union chief over Thursday’s impromptu strike
Union chief Pinchas Idan reportedly tells labor court that the IAA has been breaching airport employees’ rights, including by routinely requiring 12-hour days, six days a week
By ToI Staff
A view of a crane that collapsed in the sea near Ashkelon, March 14, 2023, killing Israel Electric Corporation employee Nir Dekel, 54. (Flash90)
August 8, 2024, 7:15 pm
NGO calls for legislation to protect outdoor laborers from effects of climate change
The Workers’ Hotline fears rising temperatures, extreme weather events, will compound risks already faced in farming, sanitation, building, gardening, infrastructure work
By Sue Surkes
Foreign workers in the fields near the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, November 13, 2016. (Yaakov Lederman/FLASH90)
July 12, 2023, 6:17 pm
Court strikes down financial penalty that encourages foreign workers not to overstay
Statute from 2016 stripped foreign workers of money deposited on their behalf if they didn’t leave the country on time; High Court rules it is a violation of property rights
By Jeremy Sharon
Illustrative: View of a construction site in the city of Gedera, February 3, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
July 6, 2023, 3:18 pm
Construction worker killed in fall in southern Israel
Paramedics declare man dead at construction site in Netivot after he falls some 5 meters and sustains severe head injury
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Rachel Goldenberg holds a sign reading 'Health and safety is a human right' at the launch of the Cabricanecos Campaign in early March. (JFREJ)
June 26, 2022, 2:48 am
In NY, Liberal rabbis demonstrate for workers’ rights and a Hasidic company listens
Impromptu bargaining session part of a larger campaign that pairs left-wing Jewish activist organizations T’ruah and Jews for Racial & Economic Justice with Laundry Workers Center
By julia GERGELY
Martin Abramowitz, center, and his sons Jacob, left, and Yosef pose at the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, at 29 Washington Place in Greenwich Village. The original building is gone but the site is marked with a plaque. (Courtesy Martin Abramowitz/ via JTA)
March 25, 2022, 4:40 pm
Union activist struggles with his father’s possible role in Triangle Shirtwaist fire
In a book whose release is timed to coincide with the March 25 anniversary of the NYC blaze that killed 146 garment workers, Martin Abramowitz describes searching for painful truth
By Susie Davidson
Illustrative: The scene of a construction site in Petah Tikvah, where three workers were seriously injured in a falling accident, on June 14, 2018. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
March 10, 2019, 7:15 pm
Construction worker dies after falling from roof in Tzur Yigal
14 people killed in workplace accidents in 2019, six of them at building sites, activists say
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Chickens on a free-range farm. (Wikipedia/woodley wonderworks/CC BY 2.0)
October 11, 2016, 11:59 am
US kosher poultry plant hit with $317,000 health, safety fine
Inquiry opened after worker loses thumb in mixing machine; finds employees wearing garbage bags for protection
By JTA
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