May Day!
April 29th, 2007Today (Sunday) our Jordanian friends in Jordan celebrate Labour Day (also known as May Day) having a nice long weekend besides the normal Jordanian weekend of Friday-Saturday,according to a communiqué issued by Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit. In UK - “May Day” is taken as the first Monday in May - 7th May
“May Day” on 1st May is an official holiday in 66 countries,including Egypt,Lebanon,Israel,Turkey and Pakistan. It is normally celebrated by trade-unionists and others with mass rallies on the streets.”May Day” celebrations in Israel are usually organized by the Israeli Labour Federation,The Histradut ההסתדרות ,founded in 1920 and today has approx 700 thousand members headed by Ofer Eini.
Histadrut logo
A rally at Kikar Rabin in Tel Aviv some yrs back.I’ll update this on Tuesday or Wed with some pictures of the event
In 1958 the Histadrut established the Afro-Asian Institute for Labour Studies to provide an instructional framework for students and workers from labour movements in Africa and Asia. In 1962 the Histadrut initiated a parallel programme of studies in its Centre for Cooperative and Labour Studies for Latin America, Spain and Portugal. This Centre also conducts mobile courses and seminars abroad in subjects such as trade unionism, cooperatives, transport cooperatives, health services in rural areas, public accounting and auditing, cooperative housing, vocational training and youth leadership etc
Enjoy May Day!
May Day in Tel Aviv on Tuesday
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Unfotunately, May Day is not an offical holiday in Turkey, despite the intensive struggle to reverse that.
Sad to hear that Sinan.I see that there were some clashes there around Taksim square
Btw I updated with a picture of ‘May Day in Tel Aviv on Tuesday’