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The national trade union "Histadrut" is not everything in Israel anymore. More and more job branches organize themselves on an independent basis in order to fight for their rights.
After thousands of Israeli hightech workers have been fired, Bezalel Greenberg got the idea of founding a trade union for the hightech field. So far, no one has ever cared about those employees. Greenberg, 30, says that people working in the Israeli hightech field have to be young. The managers are only between 28 - 34 years old and most employees are under 30 years old. "As soon as you are over 30 or even turning 40, you are old and passed on to other jobs such as teaching the younger staff members".
In the past, Israeli hightech employees earned about 17,000 Shekels a month but now, salaries are going down. Especially when you work per hour. The companies do whatever they want and if you don't agree you are just getting fired.
As most new immigrants, I used to work at the hightech industry as well. This is what many people do after making Aliyah. However, I just earned between 25 - 32 Shekels per hour; depending on the shift. "Customer Service" is what we all did. I was actually lucky, as I didn't work for IDT and I wasn't selling anything.
Every day I went to work but hated this job. The other staff members and the job itself. How the company ripped off the customers who had signed up for making cheap phone calls on the Internet.
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