The Histadrut, Israel’s Labor Federation, warned Finance Ministry officials planning to call a strike tomorrow over wage demands that they will be ousted from the Histadrut and from the Mapai party if they carry out the walkout.
Aharon Becker, Histadrut secretary-general, said “we will not tolerate chaos. We will strive for correct relations between employers and employees.” Those planning to strike are mostly in the tax department and the walkout would delay collection of some 7, 000, 000 pounds ($2, 333, 000) in taxes.
The Finance Ministry was seeking to recruit workers to keep the customs, income tax and other revenue offices open, posing the possibility of clashes between strikers and non-strikers.
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