Edited sentence: At the time, Labor favored a negotiated land agreement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and Kadima had so far refused to speak to any Palestinian leader since the Hamas election and has spoken openly of taking unilateral steps in the West Bank, which the Palestinians oppose.It failed to get it, but still insists that the minimum wage, and pension and health benefits, be raised in Israel.Kadima slammed Labor for the vote.Labour wanted the Finance Ministry to push through some costly social reforms.Most Labor MKs voted for the bill after a negotiation between Netanyahu and Barak, but for "rebels" nonetheless voted against it.On 3 August 2009, the Knesset passed the Land Reform Bill, which allows for privatization of state land and aims to give local authorities more say in land allocation by diluting some of the ILA and its six district commissions' authority in the matter.Since then, however, Kadima has directly negotiated with the Palestinian Authority.When Kadima was trying to form a coalition in 2006, the BBC reported that the new party leaned center-right in economic terms while its main coalition partner, Labor, leaned center-left