Approximatey 500 Teva Tech employees demonstrated for this morning (Wednesday) outside the management offices of Teva Phramaceutical’s management offices, which are located in Petah Tikva. The employees arrived by bus from as far away as Dimona, Yeruham and Beer Sheva to attend the protest.

Workers in front of the Teva Tech plant, this morning, prior the demonstration in Petah Tikva (Photo: Histadrut Negev Council)

1,100 Teva Tech employees opened a strike this on last Sunday morning in protest of employee work conditions. Avraham Zohar, chairman of the employee union explained, “Teva’s management decided that it would not open negotiations on a wage agreement, and stood on the offer it was making to each of its enterprises: five percent over a five-year period.  The problem is with the gap between salaries in the center and the periphery areas of the country.  In the center, the average salary is NIS 13,000 while in the south it is NIS 4,500. This effectively means that employees in the center would gain NIS 3,000 while those in the south would only see an increase of about NIS 400.” “We cannot permit this kind of gap to continue. We cannot survive another year with this salary,” Zohar added.

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