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Canada Labor Congress votes to cut ties with Histadrut

The "Hot Cargo and Israel" submitted by LPC in February alleged that the Histadrut was a "partner in the colonization of Palestine since the foundation of Israel."

The president of the Canadian Labour Congress Bea Bruske speaks while meeting with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in his office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, November 26, 2024.
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Over four-fifths of Israeli students struggling to study amid war with Iran - poll

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International federation votes against expelling Israeli social workers' union

 View of an empty classroom at a school in Tel Aviv, during a general strike of some Municipalities and local authorities, on May 15, 2023.

Israeli teachers delay school opening following extreme violence, harassments by students


Exploding Jewish athlete video causes Canada's largest union to ask VP to resign

The Canadian Union of Public Employees' National Executive Board passed a resolution on Tuesday calling for General Vice President and Ontario CUPE President Fred Hahn to resign.

 Illustrative: Fred Hahn at Ontario conference, March 2029.

Explosion in Pakistan coal mine kills 12 miners

Coal mine accidents, which are common on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, are results of gas build-ups, lack of safety gear, and poor working conditions.

 A loader loads coal in the truck at an open cast coal field at Topa coal mine in the Ramgarh district in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, India, February 27, 2024.

Eli Cohen solves Foreign Ministry work dispute in final day as minister

The signing of the agreement by foreign minister Eli Cohen marks the end of the two-year-long dispute.

 Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen seen during an interview at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, June 12, 2023.

Randi Weingarten, teachers’ union leader, joins J Street board

Randi Weingarten has been a critic of Israel's right-wing governments, and this year has joined leading American Jews who have endorsed the Israeli mass protest movement.

 Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, testifies about the effect of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on students and schools in front of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. April 26, 2023.

SAG strike puts its brash Jewish president, Fran Drescher, squarely in the spotlight

Drescher is hoping that the same chutzpah will translate into a better deal for actors who say they are not being fairly paid for work that streams online.

Actress Fran Drescher arrives as a guest at the premiere of "Star Trek Into Darkness" in Hollywood

Hollywood to grind to a halt as actors join writers on picket lines

The strike comes as actors grow increasingly worried that their digital images will be used without their permission or proper compensation.

 Striking Writers Guild of America (WGA) members walk the picket line in front of Netflix offices in Los Angeles, California, US, July 12, 2023.

Israeli screenwriters union supports striking Writers Guild of America

The Screenwriters Guild of Israel (SGI) is urging its members not to cross the virtual WGA picket line and “scab” for Hollywood studios

The Screenwriters Guild of Israel joined writers’ groups in more than 20 countries to support the Writers Guild of America in an international day of solidarity that even included war-torn Ukraine

Israel Teachers' Union announces nationwide strike for April 30

This decision, according to the union, came after the finance and education ministries did not meet their requirements after a year of "fruitless negotiations."

 A CLASSROOM at a Tel Aviv school is empty due to a strike called by the Teachers’ Union.

Law to curb worker union's power linked to judicial reform, Rothman says

The bill proposes giving the Knesset power to shut down a protest for 30 days, which can then be repeated.

 Yaffa Ben-David, head of the Teacher's Union at a protest of Israeli teachers demanding better pay and working conditions in Tel Aviv on May 30, 2022.

Iranians go on strike across country as Student Day protests begin

Student Day commemorates the murder of three students by the Shah's police force in 1953.

 Iranian boy protests in unknown location. November 2022