Strikes
and Unions
Basic
Sources
Talmud
and Codes:How does the halakha view a union? a strike?
In
the News
Israel's
December 1997 general labor strike Please send us your
comments about harming
a third party through a strike -- Is it ethical for striking government
workers to shut down the Tel Aviv water supply?
Dr.
Meir Tamari
Strikes, Justice and Charity -- A Jewish Perpective,
Dr. Meir Tamari, Director, the Center for Business Ethics and Social
Responsibility, Jerusalem College of Technology -- Machon Lev
Response
A Nurses' Strike in Israel:
A letter to the nursing staff of an Israeli hospital from
the late Rabbi Shelomo Zalman Auerbach zt"l and Rabbi Yitzchak
Yaakov Weiss. Do strikers' claims, however legitimate, justify the effects
of the strike on hospital patients?
Aggada
An Incense Maker’s Strike in the Second Temple:
A Talmudic account of how the family of the House of Avtinas,
holding the secret of how to make the Temple’s incense, goes on strike,
forcing the sages to double their wages.
Bibliography
Contemporary sources (Hebrew and English) on the
Jewish attitude to strikes
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