PM Netanyahu's Response to the Histadrut Strike Over the Issue of Contract
Workers

(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued the following response to the
anticipated Histadrut [labor federation] strike tomorrow (Wednesday),
8.2.12, over the issue of contract workers:

"A strike will not solve the problem of contract workers. It is possible to
improve the conditions of contract workers without striking the economy and
disrupting citizens' lives. There is no magic solution to the employment
problems that have been created here over decades; it is possible to resolve
the issue through dialogue.

The Israeli economy is in a delicate situation and now is not the time to
risk the stability that we have achieved at great effort and through
cooperation between the Government and the Histadrut in the face of the
collapse of some of the world's leading economies."