Update:
The chairman of Histadrut, Israel’s largest trade union, instructed workers to return to their jobs following an order by an Israeli court to end the general strike on Monday afternoon.
Earlier:
Workers across Israel walked off the job and took to the streets on Monday to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to agree to a cease-fire and hostage-release deal after Israeli forces recovered the bodies of six people who were held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Yair Lapid, Israel’s opposition leader, expressed support for the strike, saying that “Netanyahu and the cabinet of death decided not to save” the six hostages whose bodies were recovered from Rafah. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday that Hamas fighters killed the hostages, including Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
Hamas said in a statement that “we hold the criminal terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu and the biased American administration responsible for the failure of the negotiations to stop the aggression against our people and to release the prisoners in an exchange.”
B’Tselem, an Israeli advocacy organization, said in a statement Sunday that “the six Israeli hostages whose bodies were recovered from Gaza this morning could have been saved if the Israeli government had heeded the pleas of their families and the Israeli public to reach a cease-fire and an exchange deal.”
Labor unions in the United States — Israel’s main ally and weapons supplier — expressed solidarity with Israeli workers who walked off the job Monday, with American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten applauding “this action to halt Israel’s economy to send a message to the Netanyahu government to end this war.”
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https://www.commondreams.org/tag/gazalol. So nothing is going to change.
Fucking weak ass union.
If you’re going to talk the talk, walk the walk motherfuckers. Netanyahu cares nothing for the hostages and this was the best shot you had at ending this bullshit. Guess no one cares for the hostages or Palestinians.
well technically, we don’t know if they’ll stop yet
The union boss has said it’s over. I don’t see the individual locals continuing as a wildcat strike en masse.
Watching Israelis get back in line so their state can continue a genocide is some sick irony, even for god.
She works in mysterious ways.
If someone tells you that you can’t go on strike, that’s just even more reason to strike.
I’m guessing they would eventually just do what Reagan did when the air traffic controllers went on strike- get them all fired and bring in scabs.
I didn’t know the courts could just say “no strike”. Aren’t most strikes by definition going against the rules?
Strike protections generally prevent workers from losing their jobs and such. The court ordering the strike to end is essentially threatening the removal of those protections.
Where’s the strength in a strike if a court can just order people back to work…?
Israel isn’t the USA. This is about to get real real.
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Court “ordered” end to a strike generally means that any contractual, union or legal protections workers have are forfeited if the strike continues (i.e. folks can be fired, benefits lost, even sued in some cases). This is not uncommon in regimes where the judicial system has been compromised (USA, Israel, etc). That being said… be a real shame if productivity of non-striking workers were to mysteriously plummet to effectively non-existent levels. ;-)
