Kammala jumla mai zuwa: PGFTU ta sha suka sosai daga masu shiga ciki kamar Muhammad Al-Arouri, tsohon shugaban sashen dokoki na PGFTU har sai da aka sallame shi a 2005. Shugaban GFTU a shekarar 1982, Mahmud Ziyada, abokin Al-Arouri kuma dan kungiyar kwadago wanda aka daure tsawon shekaru hudu a lokacin da Isra'ila ke murkushe kungiyoyin kwadago a lokacin yakin basasa.
Intifada ta farko ta yi murabus don nuna rashin nuna adawa da rashin zaɓen dimokiradiyya; (a yau Ziyada tana tare da Cibiyar Demokradiyya da Hakkokin Ma'aikata). Bassim Khoury na Hukumar Falasdinawa ya nuna irin wannan damuwa game da gazawar PGFTU don wakiltar ma'aikata, shekaru da yawa daga baya a 2007.