Trade Union Involvement Trade Union Involvement in The Vocational Training in The Vocational Training

SystemSystem

Shay Weinblum, Child and Youth Trade Union

TRESMED 4, Madrid29.11.2011

The Israeli Vocational Training System

Three main channels professional schools (under MOITL)

technological schools and classes (under MOE)

professional training programs outside the formal education system

The Israeli Vocational Training System

• Regulated through the “Apprenticeship Law” (1953)

• Four year program

• Last two include practical work experience

• Student employment is the school’s responsibility

Main Problems

• Public image

• Social status of craft professions

• Employment

Annual Work Force Under 18Annual Work Force Under 18

The official number:

68,000 (Ministry of Industry, Trade & labor submmited to the ILO)

A survey conducted by the same ministry:

75,000Children under the age of 15 worked in

2010

Number of Students in Vocational TrainingNumber of Students in Vocational Training

• The share of teenagers entering the labour market via the vocational training system (less than 10%) is steadily decreasing

• Meaning that the majority does so through jobs that give no real professional training

Future Implications

• National perspective:Employment possibilities Industrial capacities

•TU perspective: Future work force Future of the collective IR

CYTU Activities

• Ground level: operating 3 professional schools through

“Dror Batei Chinuch”- focus on: nature, content and relevance

“Hamechadshim” (The Renewers)- informal social, cultural and educational activities, collective bargaining, legal assistance

CYTU Activities-contd.

• Policy making level advisory committee to the Minister of

Industry, Trade, and Labour

advisory committee to the director general of MOITL

steering committee on vocational training (Macro center in cooperation with FES)