Posted on 03/23/2014 6:46:32 PM PDT by Dave346
Services needed for everybody from new immigrants to employers bringing in foreign workers will be brought to a halt.
Foreign Ministry’s workers committee declared a full-fledged strike on Sunday, closing the ministry and all the country’s embassies and consulates around the world for the first time.
The strike is the latest development in a nearly two-year-old work dispute that the workers declared for improved salaries and work conditions.
Seven months of mediation efforts exploded on March 4 when the workers rejected a Finance Ministry proposal.
The workers then resumed crippling labor measures that had been put on hold during the mediation period.
A number of high-profile visits to Israel were canceled as a result of the measures, as well as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s planned trip to Mexico, Colombia and Panama next month.
In addition, Pope Francis’s planned visit in May is in doubt because of the strike measures.
A statement put out by the workers committee said that the workers declared an “indefinite” strike “in protest of the employment conditions for Israeli diplomats and because of the draconian decision by the Treasury to cut the workers’ salaries.
“Today, for the first time in Israel’s history, the Foreign Ministry will be closed and no work will be done in any sphere under the ministry’s authority,” the statement read.
The decision to strike was slammed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, who called it a “miserable” decision that shows the workers committee has become “hysterical.”
“This move has no benefit, and will only cause more damage to the ministry’s workers,” he said. “I am sorry that these irresponsible steps will come at the expense of the country’s citizens, and as contacts are under way with the Treasury and in the middle of mediation.”
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Hmmmm...
It seems to me that under the constant and wide spread threats from the world in general any Israeli government effort would come under the “umbrella” of military effort. And these bozos go on strike? This doesn’t enhance my moral support.
Can our State Department do the same?
The exact tactful way for Israel to extradite herself from her foolish attempt at diplomacy with terrorist islamonazis and their sponsors. Sorry, the foreign ministry’s shut down .
Moose out front shoulda told ya.
They aren’t on strike. They have gone to look for a missing 777 aeroplane.
Expecting something bad to happen, closing the embassies under pretense of a labor strike so as not to warn their target in advance.
I have heard the same idea....that the “strike” thing is a cover-up to bring all their people home...possibly in preparation for a major war.
That’s scary.
That was my very first thought.
No, federal employees are bared from striking. The Aircraft controllers union PAVCO did it anyway and Regan fired all of them.
Agreed. Good premptive cover for upcoming military strike. Wonder if there were there any other warnings of a labor strike prior to this article?
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