Teva Tech workers assembly during the strike (Photo: Histadrut – Negev Region)

Strike at Teva Tech ends

The strike at the Teva Tech factory came to an end on Thursday evening, after a memorandum of understanding was signed between the company and the Histadrut labor federation. The 1,100 employees at the Teva-Tech plant at Neot Hovav in the Negev have gone on strike three weeks ago over their salaries and work conditions.…

From Sunday workers have been demonstrating by the gates of the plant, located in Ramat Hovav (Photo: Histadrut Negev District)

Teva workers in the Negev went on strike

Workers at the Teva-Tech plant in the Negev went on strike Sunday morning in protest against their pay and work conditions. The workers have been demonstrating by the gates of the facility, located in Ramat Hovav, which belongs to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. The employees claim that 60% of the plant’s employees earn the minimum wage,…

Teva-Tech workers' committee chairman Avraham Zohar speaks during a workers assembly held on Monday (Photo: Histadrut – Negev Region)

Teva-Tech workers leader: We’ll break the company

The workers committees at Oil Refineries in Haifa Bay and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries all over Israel are planning to fight managements’ decisions to fire 240 employees at Oil Refineries and 700-1,000 employees at Teva. On Monday Teva-Tech workers’ committee chairman Avraham Zohar threatened “to break the company”.   “In Petah Tikva, there are employees with…

Teva's senior staff at the New York Stock Exchange (Photo: NYSE)

Teva Pharmaceuticals’ massive layoffs

Pharmaceutical giant Teva announced Thursday that starting soon and until the end of 2014, it will go through a comprehensive wave of layoffs in Israel and abroad. The job cut will see some 5,000 employees laid off, with an estimated 800 to lose their jobs in Israel. The wave of layoffs is part of a…