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The path to the first collective agreement in Israel’s mobile telephony sector is open. After four months of almost unprecedented opposition, the management of Pelephone Communications Ltd.yesterday recognized the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor in Israel) as the union representing the mobile carrier’s workers. Management made the decision after counting the employees’ union application forms, together with Histadrut representatives.

Labor Chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich congratulated the Labor Court for ruling in favor of Pelephone workers and allowing them to organize. Yachimovich wrote on her Facebook page, “This is an amazing decision by the Courthouse in regards to the organization of Pelephone employees – it prohibits employer interference in the process of association of workers . This is a bold and historic decision.”

About 800 employees of the Pelephone cellular telephone service will continue to strike, Monday, over management’s refusale to recognize their organization efforts with the Histadrut Labor Federation.

Dozens of employees of the Pelephone company and their children held a “Kabbalat Shabbat” outside the home of the company’s CEO, Gil Sharon, on Friday afternoon. The employees held up signs reading: “Gil Sharon – we do not sleep at night – you won’t sleep in the afternoon”, “There is no one to talk to at Pelephone”, and Gil – why won’t you talk to us?”

The labor dispute at Pelephone Communications Ltd.has escalated. Last night, employees participating in the strike, which was launched yesterday, discovered that their company cars had been removed from their homes by company representatives who had duplicate keys, or were towed. In some cases, the cars had child seats, baby carriages, and other personal items, such as checkbooks, inside.

Hundreds of Pelephone Communications Ltd.employees went on strike at 10 am today, in the first strike in Israel’s mobile sector. The workers committee is furious that facing the hundreds of employees who went to the lobby in the carrier’s headquarters in Givatayim, other employees from service centers, who were not due to participate in the strike, turned up in a counter-demonstration.

Communications with subscribers of the Pelephone cellular telephone service may be disrupted as of 10:00 a.m. Monday, when engineering, information systems and administrative workers at the company’s Giv’atayim headquarters go on strike. The workers are protesting management’s refusal to recognize their organizing efforts, although more than a third of the employees have joined the Histadrut Labor Federation. They said that sanctions planned for Monday were a first step and that they would take more serious steps with each passing day, as needed.

Histadrut declares labor dispute at Pelephone

Although the three major longstanding cellular firms in Israel, Cellcom, Pelephone and Orange, dropped their prices in an effort to stem the exodus, this year’s Market Watch data shows that HOT and Golan’s net promoter scores are higher than the veteran firms. Pelephone, however, showed itself to be better prepared to meet the competition, in part by lowering its prices. It has suffered fewer defections.