Bank Hapoalim employees will hold a demonstration this coming Sunday against the bank’s management in protest of its conduct in promoting the wage agreement. The bank’s employees from all over the country will demonstrate in protest of the management’s conduct, upon their approach the bank’s management presented disgraceful conditions to the workers’ organization that would result in harm to the rights and job security of the bank’s 7,000 employees.
The employees of course want conditions and money, management is of course interested in limiting the wages of the employees in order to earn more. But there is a fundamental question here – obviously the employees are allowed to ask for additional pay, obviously they can say they are disappointed, not satisfied. Are they allowed to demonstrate and strike? Yes, everything is within the law, but it only shows how strong and dominant the workers’ organizations are. This only shows that the great power lies in these organizations and in the Histadrut which helps-supports-encourages these struggles. Exercising power through a demonstration-strike is legitimate, but it only shows the great power of workers against the employer and the management.
One way or another, the workers’ committee explains that the demonstration follows the announcement of the labor dispute with the bank’s management, which was approved by the institutions of the General Histadrut on March 20.
The dispute, which includes the 7,000 Bank Hapoalim employees, was announced after the workers’ committee reached an impasse with the management, led by CEO Dov Kotler, regarding the new salary agreement. The announcement of the labor dispute allows the bank’s committee to begin sanctions at the bank’s branches.
The previous salary agreement of Bank Hapoalim employees ended four months ago when, according to Roni Garfunkel, chairman of the Bank Hapoalim employees’ organization, the bank’s management, in coming to renew the salary agreement, set unreasonable demands that would harm the rights and occupational security of the employees.
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