Labor relations

Israel imports record foreign workforce to replace Palestinians, but housing crisis looms

Israel now has 250,000 legal and illegal foreign workers, the highest number ever, according to Israel Population and Immigration Authority figures, with more to come.

|ByYUVAL NISANI/GLOBES/TNS
Foreign workers seen working in a field near the Ben Gurion Airport, on August 14, 2025.
A school bus used for transporting New York City public school students is seen driving down 135th avenue in the Queens borough of New York

Largest US teachers' union under investigation for antisemitic discrimination

Despite repeated notice, the NEA reportedly failed to take action to address the harassment and discrimination against its Jewish members.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
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.

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."

|ByMICHAEL STARR
The spiral stairs of the Vatican Museums, designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932.

Vatican Museums staff start unprecedented legal action over labor conditions

"Workers have decided this action only after all their demands and requests over the years were left unanswered."

|ByREUTERS

‘Quiet quitting’ sounds sort of … Jewish? - opinion

“Quiet quitting” means cooling your hottest ambitions in favor of a saner work-life balance.

AUGUST 29, 2022ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
Quiet quitting

Firefighters protest ‘destructive behavior’ of commissioner

The firefighters are protesting “severe damage to their working conditions, in view of the harsh reality of their ongoing activities in the past year, primarily the war on incendiary kites."

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018ByTAMARA ZIEVE
Firefighters protest working conditions in Rishon Lezion on September 17th, 2018.