KPMG and Big Four Rivals Face Growing Worker Organization Push in Israel

A labor organizing wave is moving through Israel's Big Four accounting firms, with Deloitte Israel employees taking formal steps in early March 2026 to establish a workers' committee, a structure that provides collective representation in workplace negotiations.

The move at Deloitte Israel is part of a broader pattern of worker-committee formation and union activity spreading across the major accountancy players operating in Israel, including KPMG Somekh Haikin. The near-simultaneous push across multiple firms suggests the organizing effort is coordinated or at minimum reflects shared frustrations across an industry not historically known for collective labor action.

Workers' committees in Israel hold recognized legal standing and can negotiate directly with employers on wages, conditions, and workplace policy. The formation process itself, even before a committee is fully constituted, signals that employees are willing to apply structured pressure on management rather than rely on individual advocacy.

The Deloitte development, reported by Globes in early March 2026, points to an industry-wide shift in how professional services employees in Israel are approaching their leverage. Big Four firms typically employ large cohorts of accountants, auditors, and consultants under demanding workload structures, and the accounting sector in Israel has faced persistent questions around staffing intensity and compensation parity.

For staff at KPMG Somekh Haikin, the activity at peer firms sharpens the context around any internal conversations about representation. When workers at Deloitte, a direct competitor for the same talent pool, move toward collective structures, it raises the stakes for how management at rival firms responds to their own employees' concerns. The organizing momentum across the Big Four shows no sign of stopping at a single firm.