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Only a political framework that guarantees equal rights to Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs can ensure peace and security.

Workers at the Ta'aman food factory, located in the Mishor Adumim industrial park in Ma'ale Adumim, a Jewish settlement in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, are organising to demand improved conditions, better pensions, and recognition of their union. They struck from 5-12 December, after the employer refused to recognise their union and negotiate over their demands. Workers began organising through the Workers' Advice Centre-Ma'an (WAC-Ma'an) in October.

Strike action by American workers increased dramatically over the past year. “Serious stoppages” (strikes involving more than 1,000 lasting at least one shift) rose from just five in 2009 to 19 in 2011. Days lost to strike action increased from 124,000 to over 1 million. The increase comes against the backdrop of a decade of pay stagnation for manufacturing workers, whose wages have mostly remained flat since 2000, despite a 50% increase in output.Racist attacks on African migrant workers in Tel Aviv

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/9623 Missing the point on Palestine Submitted by AWL on 22 November, 2007 - 10:15 Author: David Broder I was disappointed by Rhodri Evans’ response to Daniel Randall’s article about the Palestinian trade union movement. While Daniel’s piece displayed his support for the “third camp” of independent working-class forces in Palestine, the tone of Rhodri’s letter (“Lacking a dimension on Israel-Palestine”) was to emphasise our criticisms of initiatives to organise Palestinian workers rather than focussing on their vit...