I've been spending a lot of time on obnoxious or wicked Israelis, and it's only fair to note that there is more going on than that, including one of the great socialist organizations of history, the Histadrut labor federation,
roaring back today with a general strike against the government habit of hiring low-wage contract workers from the Israeli equivalent of temp agencies instead of union members. Interestingly enough, the government is more right-wing than the private employers' organization, the Coordinating Bureau of Economic Organizations, which has already done a deal with the federation.
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| Fourth meeting of the Hapoel Hatzair movement, about 1909. David Ben Gurion is possibly in this photo, first at the left in the second row from the bottom. From Labor Zionism at MidEastWeb.org. |
This follows up on the federation's decision, after days of agonizing back and forth, to
join last summer's vibrant protests against housing conditions— [jump]
