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Israel’s powerful Histadrut labor federation threatened to call strikes if the government denies workers realistic cost-of-living pay increases to compensate for a 12% devaluation of the shekel and subsidy cuts. A federation spokesman said that unless the government reimposes price controls and gives assurances that it will not slash education and health budgets, the labor group will withhold support for a plan by Finance Minister Shimon Peres that ends automatic cost-of-living increases. Peres has said he will press union officials to support lower real wages.
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