Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Economy Nir Barkat met with factory owners and industrialists from the north at the "Tnuva Galil" factory/Omer Miron/L.A.M., Sound: Ben Peretz/L.A.M.
At the Galilee Fruit factory, they are preparing for layoffs - recently 53 of the 130 workers received layoff letters due to the reduction in the packaging of frozen vegetables.
The parties tried to reach an agreement in the Knesset hearing, after which the number of those fired was reduced to 25.
But this turned out to be a brief postponement after this morning 45 more workers, for a total of 70 workers, received letters announcing a stoppage of work.
Moti Haziza, chairman of the workers' council at the Fruit of the Galilee factory in Hazor HaGalilit, said that "We are in the war of the Fruit of the Galilee workers, survival for the right to exist.
Of the 53 who received layoff letters, after we sat down with the Histadrut to reduce, 25 were fired.
"We were at a discussion in the finance committee, the chairman of the committee Gafni asked the CEO to freeze the layoffs. We left with the feeling that we were reaching salvation, and this morning, in addition to what they wanted to lay off 25 employees, we received another 45 employees who will be on the list to be laid off next week, because the CEO has no job And there is no employment.
My assumption is that this will not be the end."
The Galilee Fruit Factory.
"We are in a war of survival for the right to exist"/image processing, Genie Agency
According to Haziza, "If it is decided that the fate of the factory will be closed, then I say with pain and sorrow, woe betide the country that would give a hand today to such a factory in the north, in a time of war and crisis, in a time when the Turks are looking to recruit workers and the fruit of the Galilee is firing workers, and the same is true all over the world who have no respect for the State of Israel and the State of Israel appreciates them and not what we have here in Israel. Apparently we need to bring an economy minister and an agriculture minister from Turkey."
He went on to talk about the lack of response from the government institutions: "Would the Minister of Economy be so kind as to come hear the whispers of the production workers' hearts? We are not political businessmen, not members of a center or anything, we are production workers and nothing else. I have been trying to get him for three weeks now just to get him to speak , but we are production workers - so what, we are only good people on election day when you pass by us and say hello? But today, come listen."
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Haziza protested the lack of cooperation from senior officials in the government: "I don't want money, I don't want charity and donations, we don't want anything, we just want to work, we are not playthings of the businessmen. We are human beings, behind us are families, there are children. The farmers come to me And crying, all agriculture is over, there is no one to work it. The Director General of the Ministry of Economy called me and said he wanted to hear, and to date no one has been.
This is what is in the periphery, making statements that you want to support yes, but you don't."
In conclusion, Haziza said that "We didn't come to ask for money, do you want to close the factory?
There are buyers, there are those who are interested, there are a lot of people who would like to buy it, there is tremendous potential, but be realistic and give us the minimum respect and peace of mind, rather than every Monday and Thursday not knowing what is happening.
And if the factory is closed then the state will be responsible.
We applaud the government for closing the anchor plant in Hazor HaGalilit."
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