Strikes Hit Government Services.

If you received your copy of Israel Business Today late, the blame goes to the Israeli post office. Government companies and offices, together with civil servants and sanitation workers have been striking since September 1, 1998. The Histadrut (the national labor union) is demanding that the Government approve an 8 percent wage increase for government companies and workers. The Government is offering a wage increase in line with inflation, plus a bit more, that in the end will add up to salary increases of about 5 percent. The salary increases that civil servants win is considered