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Workers at Teva

Many dozens of Teva’s employees in Jerusalem spent the last night inside

the factories, on the floor with mattresses in the empty corridors of the two

factories at the Har Hotzvim neighborhood in the capital, which according
to the cuts and layoffs plan are meant to be completely shut down by the end

of next year. Negotiations began early in the morning, a first meeting of the
workers’ representatives with the Minister of Labor and Welfare Haim Katz.

And the demonstrations and protests continue all this time. Around noon the

location is already the Ministry of Treasury. “It’s unclear to us what
happened to Teva and we’ll continue to fight for Jerusalem and for Teva

Jerusalem.” Representatives of Teva’s unions around Israel in a first

meeting with the Ministers of Treasury and Economy and chairman of the
Histadrut, while simple workers outside still fear what the future might

bring. From all the negotiations today (you) could say two things for certain:

even if the magnitude of the layoffs would be reduced from seventeen
hundred, it would still be vast and significant, and also that the factories in

Jerusalem will stand at the front of the struggle with the purpose of saving

at least one of them.

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