Finance minister demands attorney general seek injunctions to block labor strike

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich demands that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara seek immediate injunctions to prevent tomorrow’s general strike in the labor market.

In a letter to Baharav-Miara, he says the strike “is clearly political and lacks any legal basis.”

The strike was “declared to wrongly influence issues that are clearly at the diplomatic level… on matters pertaining to national security. These matters are at the heart of the jurisdiction of the political echelon and are not subject to strikes of workers’ unions.”

He notes there was no advance warning given regarding the strike plans, adds that the move was taken without labor leaders being privy to the full national security picture before decision-makers, and warns that it could set a “dangerous precedent.”