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Farewell,
Socialism

Despite the strikes, the government is
moving ahead with privatization.

LARRY DERFNER

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ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT

mound of tires and wood-

en planks is smoldering in-
side the entrance to the
government-owned Israel
Shipyards. On March 8, the 230
workers shut the yard down, and
most of them have been spend-
ing their days and nights there
ever since.
The company is being sold to
private owners. The workers,
nearly all in their 40s and 50s, as-
sume they are going to lose their
jobs. They're striking in the hope
of getting enough compensation
to help them through what might
be unexpected retirement.
"Nobody's going to hire me,"
said Jacques Dahan, 53, a car-
penter who's worked at the yard
for 33 years. "You read the want
ads, and they're not looking for
anybody over 45."
On the 11th day of the strike,
the workers are sitting on bench-
es outside the empty adminis-
tration building, listening to
speeches from sympathetic politi-
cians and Histadrut national
union leaders. At night they roll
out their sleeping bags near their
work stations, Mr. Dahan said,
"and talk about our troubles."
Workers from other govern-
ment-owned companies come by
the yard to show solidarity. One
day during the strike, employees
of the government-owned Israel
Electric Co. shut off power to the
Haifa area for a few hours in sup-
port. Workers at state-owned
shipping, petrochemical and
weapons manufacturers in the
area went on a work stoppage.
Said Amos Eden, union leader
of the 10,000-plus workers at Is-
rael Electric Co.: "Today it's Is-
rael Shipyards; tomorrow it's us."
Israel Shipyards is one of 140
active government-owned com-
panies in Israel. Altogether they
employ more than 70,000 people.
Privatization of these compa-
nies has long been promised by
both Labor and Likud govern-
ments, and now the program is
finally beginning to pick up
steam. Sixteen companies have
been sold off to private buyers,
three of them — a construction
company, a department store and
a computer services firm — in re-
cent months.
More than 50 companies, such
as El Al and the Bezek telephone
company, remain under govern-
ment control but are wholly or
partially owned by stockholders.

More sell-offs are in the works.
The idea has support, even
from the Histadrut. The compa-
nies are widely considered ineffi-
cient, even though 52 of the
remaining 77 industrial concerns
are in the black. Nearly everyone
agrees that businesses are best
run by businesspeople, not the
government. In this rush from so-
cialism, what sometimes gets
overlooked is the fate of the em-
ployees.
Firing workers in the wake of
privatization is a "natural ten-
dency," said Ze'ev Lichtenfeld,
consultant on privatization to Is-
rael's Government Companies
Authority. In the recent sale of
the Shekem department store,
some 600 of the 2,400 employees
were fired, said Efraim Jilony,
deputy chairman of the His-
tadrut's Trade Unions Depart-
ment.
"Privatization is just begin-
ning, and what we are trying to
do at Israel Shipyards and other
government-owned companies is
establish a magna carta for the
workers' rights," said Mr. Jilony.
`The government can't just sell
these businesses without any re-
gard for the employees, who've
worked there all their lives."
Since the mid-1980s, Israel
Shipyards workers have seen
their salaries cut by 40 percent.
Monthly wages, even for workers
with 30 years seniority, don't get
much above $1,300 now, said Mr.
Dahan. The shipbuilding busi-
ness has fallen on hard times. Is-
rael Shipyards' losses over the
years are estimated as high as
$200 million. The company has
been in and out of receivership,
and despite periodic strikes to
protest layoffs, some 1,000 work-
ers have been let go since 1979.
"Every few years we have to
fight, and now we're tired of fight-
ing," said technician Moshe Gu-
rion, 45, while walking through
a cavernous hangar where two
battleships being built for the Is-
raeli Navy stood unattended.
"Everybody is saying they want
to take the [compensation mon-
ey] and to hell with the job, and
in the end I think that's what's
going to happen. We'll reach a
compromise, take the money, and
say, Thank you, goodbye."'
Shlomo Shmelzer, who im-
ports Skoda cars to Israel and is
now finalizing his purchase of Is-
rael Shipyards, insists the work-

