A bill submitted by Knesset member Simcha Rothman seeks to limit the right to strike for workers in essential services.
According to the bill, the Histadrut and the workers' unions must first try to settle the dispute by contacting a mediator appointed by the Minister of Labor or the chairman of the National Economic Council.
The proposal gives the Knesset the possibility to order a strike to be suspended for 30 days, until the arbitration decision, and even to stop the strike completely - in circumstances where there is a special interest, an unusual economic injury, a significant disruption to the normal course of the public's life or a danger to the public's peace.
Requests to limit the right to strike.
MK Simcha Rothman, photo: Olivier Fitousi/Flash90
The bill seeks to establish in addition that a sympathy strike, which deals with a conflict that has nothing to do with the striker's workplace, will be considered an unprotected strike.
The purpose of this section is to prevent the Histadrut from joining protests against the legal revolution.
In response to the bill, Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David said: "It will not arise and will not exist.
This is another attempt by extremist elements to weaken the status of workers in the State of Israel and to erode one of the basic economic and social rights of democracy.
Exercising the right to strike is one of the main tools to protect the vulnerable populations in the economy, and I will not allow any party to harm the workers.
I knew how to stand up to this illusory threat in the past, and I don't propose to try us this time."
"The legal reform is a tool for promoting a country without workers' rights and without workers' organizations."
MK Naama Lazimi, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
MK Naama Lazimi of the Labor Party said in response to the proposal: "Before Simcha Rothman hates the justice system, he is first of all a disturbed libertarian against equality and against living with dignity. The legal reform is a tool to promote the real goal of the Kohalat Forum - a country without workers' rights and without workers' organizations. with weak courts and on behalf of. Rothman wants the same thing in the market and in the country - the reduction of democracy, the abolition of rights and the possibility to revolt against harm and injustice against the systems."
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