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Last update - 22:43 11/05/2008 Junior lecturers to disrupt studies in protest against work conditions By Ofri Ilani, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Israel, Lecturers, Strike  Junior academic staff on Monday will start disrupting studies at universities across Israel in protest against the employment conditions of external lecturers. Danny Shpruch, of Tel Aviv University's junior academic staff, declared: "Our patience is about to run out. The members of our organization are employed on starvation wages as contracted workers, without any sort of pension or social rights." "We request of the university heads: Show responsibility. Let's not lose the semester because of redundant obstinacy," Shpruch said. Advertisement A general meeting will be held from 12:00-14:00 at Tel Aviv University in order to explain the lecturers' demands, during which there will be no classes. On Tuesday, another such meeting will be held at Haifa University between 12:00 and 14:00, at which time classes will also be cancelled. Members of the junior staff, which are responsible for a considerable part of University courses and programs, are all employed as "visiting teachers." As such, they are paid by the hour for eight months a year. They do not receive pensions or academic or social rights. Senior lecturers late last year held the longest academic strike in Israel's history, at the end of which agreements were signed in January that did not deal with the junior staff's working conditions. Last week, representatives of the junior staff agreed to postpone by two weeks the labor sanctions which were planned for next week, in order to engage in accelerated negotiations with the universities' administrations. Related articles: The lecturers' strike won't help Universities offer to begin talks with junior faculty threatening strike Cost of lecturers' strike estimated at nearly NIS 300 million Bookmark to del.icio.us   A top priority Barack Obama: We will keep Israel's security a priority. Tale of a key Cartoon film on Nakba describes Jews as 'enemies of homeland'.

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