The Histadrut has declared a labor dispute at a Teva factory in Kfar Saba

The Histadrut has declared a labor dispute at a Teva factory in Kfar Saba, which will affect about 1,200 workers. It will be possible to run organizational steps starting from 1.7.
A letter sent to the company's VP of Human Resources and the director of labor relations at the Ministry of Welfare and Social Security states, among other things, that "negotiations between the parties include a collective agreement, including a wage agreement, and significant and significant gaps. The employees, without dialogue, sharing, consultation and / or agreement with the employees' representatives. "
It was also stated that "the company receives new employees at a high starting salary, equal to or very close to the salaries of the old employees, and refuses to update their salaries according to the updated salary ranges according to which the company receives new employees. For working conditions, welfare, employee transportation and more. "
It also states that "the company operates in the dark and unilaterally, including staffing core positions through outsourcing, at the expense of employees fired in an efficiency process that ended only a few months ago, and that the company announced that their position was redundant and their standard would be revoked."
In addition, allegations are made of "lack of transparency and participation of the workers 'committee on welfare issues, use of disciplinary procedures in bad faith and arbitrarily, creating an unreasonable burden on workers as a result of workloads and lack of manpower, and attempting to harm the workers' committee and organizational force "Divide and rule" between the committee and the workers. "
Eliezer Blue, Chairman of the Histadrut's Food and Pharmaceutical Workers' Union: I call on the management to recover and come to negotiations with creative solutions that will make it possible to end the conflict and return to normal working relations in the factory. "
Chairman of the Teva Workers 'Committee, Eliran Kozlik: "The workers' committee has been very involved in the past year in rehabilitating the site. We all went ‘under the stretcher’ when on the management side there is no personal example at all. The management withdrew from the agreements, has been acting in bad faith for several months and is trying in every way to harm organized work while recruiting new employees at a higher salary than the old ones.
Despite many attempts to solve the problems and despite the fact that we have been acting for years as a 'responsible adult' in front of the management, we were left with no choice and decided to put an end to this conduct once and for all, and if necessary do not hesitate to disable the site. We will not allow the continued erosion of employee wages and the wage gaps created by management, while on the other hand it outsources positions. We will continue to stand up for the rights of the workers and the rights of the contractor's workers, who are also trying to harm them. "