Israel’s Modai Urges Unions Not to Strike
<i> Reuters</i>
JERUSALEM —
Yitzhak Modai, Israel’s new finance minister, Tuesday asked trade unions representing one million workers to cancel a 24-hour general strike scheduled for Thursday.
The powerful trade union federation Histadrut is demanding a long-term agreement with the government to raise salaries and official action to lower the unemployment rate from 9%, near the all-time high.
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