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T.A. University staff boycott campus coffee shop, back workers' strike

By Tamara Traubmann, Haaretz Correspondent

As the strike by workers of the Coffee To Go restaurant on the Tel Aviv University campus entered its second day on Wednesday, the university's senior faculty decided to boycott the branch in solidarity.

The move follows an e-mail to the teachers calling on them not "to derail the just struggle of the workers and to avoid patronizing the branch until the labor dispute between the management and the workers is settled."

Dozens of employees at the restaurant walked off the job on Tuesday to protest their employment conditions.

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On Wednesday, employees, along with students and faculty members, stood at the entrance and handed out flyers to passersby. Servers were brought in from other branches to replace the strikers, but most would-be customers did not cross the picket line.

Security guards hired by management kept the striking workers from entering the premises to give out flyers. On Wednesday, the company claims, strikers disturbed diners.

The management, for its part, "brought in goons to scare the [striking] workers, they were around even before the strike started," said attorney Itai Swirsky of the university's legal aid and welfare clinic.

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