Construction Union

08.01.2025

Foreign Workers’ Rights Hang in the Balance as Construction Industry Faces Crisis

The sudden loss of employment for thousands of foreign workers would have significant social and economic repercussions. Moreover, their legal status in the country will ...Read more

07.04.2024

The Construction Industry needs better solutions; Bar-David called on the Minister of Housing and Construction and the Minister of Interior to regroup

More than 20,000 contruction workers are waiting to arrive in Israel, but only dozens enter each week

06.08.2023

New Vocational Training for Palestinian Workers in the Construction Industry in Collaboration with BWI Global Union and Elektrikerna 

A significant effort towards fostering better work conditions and enhancing professional capacities of Palestinian workers.

22.07.2023

Unfulfilled Safety Agreements Trigger Alarm in Construction Sector

Issac Moyal issues a pressing appeal to government officials to implement safety measures, citing rising accident rates and unfulfilled 2019 agreements.

11.05.2023

Ensuring fairness and rights: Palestinian workers’ paychecks go digital

Yitzhak Moyal, Chairman of the Construction and associated industries Union in a personal column about the welcome change that will apply to the construction, agriculture ...Read more

19.02.2023

Annual labor conference concludes with call for dialogue, collaboration and innovation

Trade Unionists, Government and Business convene in Eilat for the future of labor in Israel

01.02.2023

400 workers from Lime and Stone Ltd. receive salary increase and a profit bonus

Collective bargain agreement for workers welfare and profitability of the company

15.12.2022

Moyal: Time for action to prevent workplace deaths

On the backdrop of latest deaths, Construction Union leader calls for change in policy, action and resources

13.10.2022

Construction workers in Israel represented at BWI Congress

Moyal elected as a member of the World Council of BWI.

06.09.2022

Histadrut Construction Workers Union: No room for personnel employment corporations for Palestinian workers in the building sector

In response to the Government of Israel’s call for proposals and positions, the Histadrut construction workers’ union announced that after a thorough review of the ...Read more

26.06.2022

Palestinian workers benefit from a unique alternative dispute mechanism. The Grievance Committee

One of the successful mechanisms we have established in the Histadrut of Construction Workers Union is the Grievance Committee, in which arbitration proceedings are held ...Read more

12.06.2022

New collective agreement in the construction industry signed

The agreement, signed by the Histadrut, the Builders’ Association of Builders, and the Association of Renovation Contractors, will be valid for five years and includes, ...Read more

27.05.2022

Hundreds of construction sites across Israel halted activities on the National Day of Safety in Construction 2022

National Day of Safety for the Building and Infrastructure Industry took place on Thursday (26 May 2022) at construction sites all over Israel.Hundreds of construction ...Read more