Avi Edri

Avi Edri (born 13 October 1968) is the chairman of the transport workers union in Israel.

After 3 years of work at the airport as a customs officer, Edri was elected as a member of the Airport Customs Workers' Committee. Afterwards Edri was elected as the Chairman of the Airport Customs Workers' Committee. In 2003, Edri was elected as the Chairman of National Committee of the customs and V.A.T workers in Israel. In 2003, the State employees union under the leadership of Ofer Eini led a 100 days of struggle against the policy of Minister of Finance Benjamin Netanyahu. During this struggle, Edri went public thanks to the unique struggle against the Ministry of Finance. He ordered all employees to check all suitcases at the airport for 100 days and thus created a long line of passengers. The Constitution Committee of the Israeli Parliament tried to blame Edri in jailing passengers. In response, Edri presented to the Committee reports of findings during the struggle, including reports of captured drugs, guns, gold and diamonds. After he presented the findings – He asked the Committee members to give him a formal approval to release all the passengers. By doing so, he passed the responsibility for the smuggling to the Parliament. During the struggle, Edri ordered flowers and snacks for the passengers as they waited in line. The disabled and elderly were exempt. In July 2007, Edri was nominated Chairman of the Transport workers union in Israel.

In this role, he built the union institutions. He founded 3 main divisions.

• The air division: deals with the Airports Authority workers [1], employees of Airlines companies [2], experiment pilots of the air industry, companies of "Handling" at the airport, Israeli employees who works in foreign airlines.
• Overland division: deals with Railway workers, bus drivers, Truck drivers.
• Marine division: deals with the 3 Ports workers in Israel

In 2008, the union under his leadership achieves many achievements for the transport workers, in terms of wages, and security in employment, including transferring workers from personal employment contracts to collective agreements. The union under his leadership signed an agreement to cooperate with the Palestinian transport workers union. He also founded a "forum of leaders" from the truck drivers Committee to improve the employment conditions of the truck drivers in Israel. In the Last year, the union under his leadership added more union members. Edri is married and he is a father of three children. In 2009 Edri graduated from Law School.