Zim\u2019s labor dispute escalated over the weekend as workers sharply curtailed port operations and barred Chairman Yair Seroussi from entering company facilities, deepening their protest against the planned $4.2 billion sale of the shipping line to Hapag-Lloyd.<\/p>\n
The workers\u2019 union announced last week that it will cut in half the scope of the company\u2019s approved exceptional activities, including, for example, the unloading of ships carrying agricultural produce. The union also stated that company chairman Yair Seroussi will not be permitted to enter Zim\u2019s facilities in Haifa, Holon, and Ashdod.<\/p>\n
The decision to scale back exceptional operations was made earlier, but implementation of the measures had been postponed.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the Knesset\u2019s Economics Committee held a discussion on the proposed sale of Zim, at the initiative of MK Oded Forer. Last month, the workers\u2019 union met with ministers Nir Barkat, Dudi Amsalem, Avi Dichter, and Gila Gamliel, as well as opposition lawmakers, including Forer.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the union said:<\/p>\n
\u201cZim is not an ordinary commercial company. During wartime, Zim\u2019s vessels served as a vital channel for supplying ammunition, food, and medicine to the State of Israel. Selling it to a foreign shipping company would seriously harm the state\u2019s ability to act independently in times of emergency. We are not just fighting for our jobs, we are fighting for the security of every Israeli citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zim\u2019s labor dispute escalated over the weekend as workers sharply curtailed port operations and barred Chairman Yair Seroussi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-304588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}