IN JULY 2007 the Histadrut (Israel’s General Federation of Labor) reached a pension agreement with the Coordinating Office of Economic Organizations.1 “A historic accord!” said the signers. For the first time in Israel, the unorganized working poor would have a pension…
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Reforms versus Organized Labor
AFTER CUTTING INTO the living flesh of the jobless, the physically challenged, children and the elderly, and after trampling organized labor, the Israeli government in 2007 wakes up to discover that there is poverty in the land. One fourth of…