All 19 privately owned mills in Israel which produce 85 percent of the country’s flour were closed down today by their owners in protest against what they called a violation of a labor contract when workers of one large mill near Tel Aviv proclaimed a slowdown in efforts to secure better terms than those negotiated nationally.
Flour supplies in Israel are expected to be exhausted in one week if the shutdown continues. The owners are demanding that the Histadrut, Israel’s labor federation, ensure an orderly resumption of work by all mill employees in the country before they reopen the mills.
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