Union

Bar-David defeated former Histadrut chief Ofer Eini, with 78% of the vote. The vote was an even bigger victory than former Histadrut chief Avi Nissenkorn’s 62.5%-37.5% victory.

The move comes as the company faces realities including pinched supply chains, effects from the coronavirus pandemic and heightened tensions and political unrest.

“The responsibility for harming the citizens of Israel is on the shoulders of those who ignore the... demand to allow Foreign Ministry workers to do their jobs under fair and appropriate conditions."

“The workers are not asking for a raise; they want the rights that were taken from them.”

The Canadian Union of Public Employees represents approximately 700,000 Canadian workers nationally and fights to improve standards in healthcare, education, social services and more.

The union reached the height of its power in 1959, when it claimed nearly a half-million members. But by the 1970s, unionized shops were closing throughout the United States.

The analogy, which one attendee told the Times was inappropriate, could be interpreted to imply that Starbucks spreads scarce resources across its workforce.

HEALTH AFFAIRS: After weeks of protests, junior medical staff reach agreement with the Health Ministry.

Worker power is essential to building our economy from the COVID-19 crisis better than before and developing the economy from the bottom up and the middle out. 

BDS has been in the air as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become a flashpoint of the American labor movement, public education unions in particular.