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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
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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
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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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