A.M. General Strike over Teva Job Cuts Shuts Down Much of Israel
Large swaths of Israel’s capitalist economy were shut down on Sunday morning, December 17, as result of a general solidarity strike declared by the Histadrut Labor Federation over plans by the pharmaceutical giant Teva to lay off some 1,750 employees in Israel. On Sunday morning, Teva employees gathered outside the pharmaceutical company’s offices in Jerusalem,…