By issuing the tenders for the ports without input from the workers' committees, the Transportation Ministry is likely to provoke sanctions and extended strikes.
by Daniel Schmil 1 comments
With the public clamoring for greater competition and lower prices in banking, well-compensated Israel Discount Bank employees shuttered their branches Thursday to attend a rally to protect their automatic pay raises.
by Sivan Aizescu 1 comments
Too many senior physicians at Israeli hospitals are on the job for life, crowding out younger colleagues and raking in public money.
by Meirav Arlosoroff 2 comments
Doctors will be sent to the homes of workers who say they are ill.
by Daniel Schmil 0 comments
Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport will grind to a halt on Tuesday as all staff are expected to join employees of Israeli employees in strike protesting the government's signing of an Open Skies agreement with the EU.
by Zohar Blumenkrantz, Rina Rozenberg and Jonathan Lis 5 comments
The Finance Ministry and the nurses union signed an agreement late Wednesday night that gives the nurses a cumulative raise of 13 percent.
by Dan Even 0 comments
The treasury on Tuesday called on the nurses to return to the negotiating table, saying the parties were 'a step away from an agreement.'
by Dan Even 0 comments
At this stage the Finance Ministry has offered the nurses wage increases of up to 11 percent, but the nurses refuse to agree to add working hours in public health services as part of the deal.
by Dan Even 1 comments
While Finance Ministry reports some progress in effort to end the 15-day strike, nurses deny any headway.
by Dan Even 0 comments
Some 6,000 operations have been postponed so far due to the strike and thousands of other diagnostic tests have also been put off.
by Dan Even 0 comments
