Employees at Tnuva, the nation’s largest dairy are continuing sanctions in protest over labor issues. The sanctions began with halting the delivery of cottage cheese, then certain chocolate milks, and now, halting distribution to over 400 delivery points nationwide. The shortages are most apparent with cottage, Yoplait yogurt and certain chocolate milk products.
Most shoppers in Israel believe that ultimately, the result will be a price hike before yomtov, perhaps more than the regular pre-yomtov price hikes.
For consumers who only use products with Badatz Eida Chareidis supervision, the cottage cheese boycott leaves them without a substitute since only Tnuva carried Eida certified cottage. If the strike moves into yomtov the impact will be more significant for Eida consumers since the number of products available to them on yomtov is significantly limited to begin with. The Eida Chareidis removes its certification from many dairy item before Pesach including hard cheeses.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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This doesn’t just affect people who eat only Eida products because the other dairies are smaller and are not willing to produce extra for what is expected to be a short-lived strike. That means that there is NONE of these types of products mentioned available in the stores, and in some places Tnuva refused to make any deliveries.
What I find amazing is that it has taken a week and one-half for this information to have reached the news. It has been going on for more than a week and these products have been absent already for that time in smaller local stores. Why does the consumer have to suffer for these management-union conflicts? What are we supposed to feed our children.