Said the General Federation of Trade Unions Israel (Histadrut) It will start on Monday a general strike if the open is not reached at the last minute agreement with the Ministry of Finance on the workers' demands.
Union accuses the Israeli government to encourage increased contracts for temporary workers who receive only the rights of a few do not have the protection system provided for in the agreements governing the civil service in Israel.
A spokesman for the "Histadrut" Eyal Malma The strike aims to open protest against the Basic Law to conduct a second-class matter which hundreds of thousands of Israeli workers who work in the public sector and some private institutions.
Malma added that "the exploitation of these workers who receive lower wages and do not have social rights like the rest of the workers has become the scourge calls for urgent intervention to stop it," noting that the spread of this phenomenon makes it difficult to develop estimates of the number of such workers.
The Union called on trade unions is part of the integration of these workers in the public sector and Temtaahm the same rights and privileges of their fellow Almsmn, but the government refuses to take measures it considers affect the Israeli economy, and suggests the increase in the minimum wage and granting more rights for this category of workers.
The failed negotiations that took place during the last few days between the President of the Federation of Trade Unions Ofer Eini and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz to reach agreement on the matter.
Governmental requestIn its response to the declaration of the strike called on the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Federation of trade unions to cancel the strike, and said it could reach "a just and responsible" to the case.
The statement from Netanyahu's office after the cabinet meeting on Sunday that "the conduct must be the responsibility of the Israeli economy at a time of economic crisis, a real European countries."
The strike, if implemented, Seychelles, a significant number of institutions in various sectors including ministries, departments and universities, hospitals, public transport, roads, railways and ports and Ben Gurion International Airport, banks, stock exchange and the courts and the electricity and telecommunications.
Source: French
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