While that was a fairly aggressive way of commenting, I'll still answer for the sake of other people reading this. Here's an example of how social workers in I

While that was a fairly aggressive way of commenting, I'll still answer for the sake of other people reading this. Here's an example of how social workers in Israel were let down by the Histadrut - Israel's organization of trade unions. http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Social-workers-feel-let-down-by-minister-Histadrut http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Social-workers-feel-let-d... Social workers are some of the lowest paid government workers in Israel, and they always participate in general strikes when requested by the Histadrut. They've helped secure higher salaries for bank unions, airport unions, electric unions and port worker unions. But when it was there turn to strike (After decades of stagnant income), they were thrown under the bus, with the Histadrut negotiating a deal that didn't even offer a raise that would cover the lost income. Leader of the Israeli Labor Party (Closely tied with the union leaders) Shelly Yachimovich even put out a public letter calling on social workers to end their strike. Effectively taking away any bargaining power they had left. (Hebrew link, couldn't find coverage in English): http://www.blacklabor.org/?p=29042 http://www.blacklabor.org/?p=29042