Thousands of jobless Arabs used to pass through their offices and leave empty-handed. The decrees of the clerks went unchallenged. Now those halcyon days are over.
Arab workers have a place to turn to when their rights are violated.
In its first convention in May 1998, WAC declared that one of its main activities would be the defense of the unemployed. Since then workers have been coming to us in droves. We have contact now with more than a thousand. Recently we won a case involving nineteen women on which we reported two issues ago. The government employment bureau had sent them to pick olives in Beit Shean, but the workplace turned out to be fictitious.