No strike tomorrow

A nationwide strike set for tomorrow is averted after the main union and the Finance Ministry reach a compromise over the rights of workers set to be fired due to the shutting down of the state broadcaster.

Under the deal between the Histadrut Labor Federation and the treasury, 65 percent of the workers would be rehired in the newly established broadcasting cooperation, while 100 more workers will be given jobs in other government offices, the Finance Ministry says.

Workers over the age of 50 would get enhanced pension benefits, the statement says.

In 2014, the Knesset passed broad reforms that would close the Israel Broadcasting Authority, which politicians at the time described as increasingly irrelevant and costly, and replace it with the new broadcasting corporation. Ongoing disputes about the makeup of the new authority have threatened to bring down the governing coalition.