End of the labor dispute in IAI: wage increase of 3.5%

End of the labor dispute in IAI: The workers will receive the wage increases they agreed with the company's management and in return agreed to accelerate negotiations on a new employment agreement that is required to allow the company to be issued. According to the agreement, the wages of about a quarter of the company's 3,500 workers will be increased. by 3.5%.
The agreements were reached at a meeting held on Wednesday afternoon with the participation of Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar-David, Chairman of the Workers' Committee Yair Katz, IAI's VP of Human Resources Barak Sturzberg and representatives of the Wages Commissioner at the Ministry of Finance, who objected to the agreement reached The increase in ranks in violation of public sector wage agreements has led to conflict.
This week, IAI's workers' committee threatened to take sanctions that would harm the company's day-to-day operations starting tomorrow, if no agreements are reached regarding wage increases for workers. "When the state is run by a transitional government, the bureaucracy becomes much more dominant," Katz said on Monday. "It cannot be that the committee will come to subordinate discussions and that the Treasury will fortify its position. In light of this situation, we have stopped the talks on the IPO and we are focusing on 2021."
Katz claimed that the inability of the IAI management to improve the wage conditions of the workers caused a brain drain from the company. "There's a wave of departures, because the market is boiling and our workers are getting better financial offers from other companies. If the country does not recover it will have to buy the next Iron Dome and the radar manufactured at IAI's Elta plant from companies abroad. To keep the company in mind. We need to know how to pay them, and we will do everything we can to ensure that they stay. "