In 2005, Bema'aglei Tzedek initiated a project to promote awareness about the plight of non-union custodians working in educational institutions throughout Israel . Most of these workers are new immigrants and/or minorities who do not receive their legally-mandated wages and benefits packages.

Bema'aglei Tzedek trains high school students to act as "watchdogs" for the custodians working in their own schools. As part of their training, high school students are taught how to: look out for discrepancies in a custodian's pay slip; inform custodians about their rights; advocate on behalf of custodians to principals and other school authorities; and organize various awareness-generating activities within the school. Students are also encouraged to initiate projects such as organizing campaigns to encourage fellow students to pick up their chairs and, thereby, facilitate the cleaning staff's job or to collect money to buy New Year's presents for the security guards.

This initiative creates a network of high school students, religious and secular alike, who are well-versed in Israeli labor laws and are deeply passionate about lobbying on behalf of workers' rights.

As a direct result of the student network's lobbying efforts, several leading Israeli institutions have adopted more just tender systems, making it possible for those institutions to uphold their workers' rights. Foremost among these institutions is the Jerusalem Education Authority (MANCHI), which added 3.5 million NIS to its 2008-2009 budget to ensure that custodial staff within the Jerusalem school system receive their legally-mandated wages. MANCHI also hired an outside auditor to review the pay slips of 220 custodial workers in Jerusalem schools. This auditor discovered 850,000 NIS in back-pay owed to custodial workers. Thus far, 400,000 NIS have been returned to the custodial staff and 450,000 NIS more are in the pipelines.