Dagon Grain Silo strike lead to shortage of wheat

Workers at the Dagon Grain Silo company in the Haifa Port, the country's largest grain silo, went on strike last week, 10 days after the Haifa Labor Court ordered the workers to end an earlier walkout.
 
The strike has already caused millions of shekels in damages, according to the Association of Wheat, Grain and Fodder Shippers.
 
In a press release the Association said that the sufferers of the strike action were mostly oganizations that rear or keep animals, grain importers, yeast factories and flour mills.
According to the Association of Wheat, Grain and Fodder Shippersthe strike was likely to lead to a shortage of wheat and consequently bread, if it does not end within a few days.
The workers are demanding a 20 percent pay increase following the transfer of control of the grain silo, which stores 75 percent of the country's imported grain, from the Dagon company to the Chimobil consortium on July 31. The workers stopped unloading grains.
 
The Labor Court refused last week Dagon management's request to order the employees back to work. Haifa Port workers took sympathetic action last week. The action included refusing to let a bulk carrier, carrying imported grain, to exit the port so it could unload its grain cargo elsewhere.
 
Today, 4th of July, Dagon workers have agreed to temporarily end their strike and to start negotiantions.