Beating the System

March 13, 2008 - 3:30 PM by

Last month we wrote about workers at a Tel Aviv branch of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Company striking for better pay and terms.

See that guy with the megaphone? His name’s Alon-Lee Green & he led the protests.

According to Hebrew press, Alon and his team of strikers beat “the man” by negotiating better terms for all and scoring an unprecedented perk: the coffee chain’s 300 workers in Israel’s 14 branches will receive a percentage of company earnings.

Now Alon is on the lecture trail talking to others about unionizing and effective protest. His tips:

1) Make sure the organization is headed by a charismatic leader
2) 1/3 of workers need to sign on to create a union
3) A union can be registered with the Histadrut or Tel Aviv University’s Legal/Social Clinic
4) Management will be looking for infractions by union members so “watch your back”
5) Fear not management threats of lawsuits
6) Protests that damage a company’s image are good
7) Strikes are effective weapons
8) Don’t negotiate alone. Let the pro’s i.e. attorneys go at it

Tags: • Category: Food, Politics, Pop Culture 

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3 Comments on Beating the System

  1. Miss Worldwide on Thu, Mar 13th 2008 7:00 PM

    2. Is Israel becoming like France?

  2. Stephanie on Thu, Mar 13th 2008 9:04 PM

    3. It always has been, in my opinion, in terms of “the proles”. But they don’t yet have the art of the strike down to the science the French do.

  3. David-Joe on Fri, Mar 14th 2008 1:36 AM

    4. He is a bolshevik. It is not the function of a union to threaten a company.

    But given Israel’s unfortunate socialistic statist type history where economics is concerned I am not surprised the company buckled to threats – I venture that Israeli law is not exactly friendly to companies.

    Mr Green is a dangerous individual because should he succeed, and companies take defensive measures, jobs will be lost or not created.

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