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Junior lecturers are jealous at senior racketeers

admin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:55:44 +0000

After the senior staff in Israeli universities ended its three-month strike by extorting generous kickbacks from the government in return for the lousy teaching, junior staff wants to follow the suit. Junior staff lacks the employment rights of the senior who deliberately built a barrier against newcomers, draining Israeli universities of young bright lecturers.

Israel’s another peace parley

admin — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:04:02 +0000

Besides Annapolis, Israeli government is trying to hammer a peace agreement with trade-union of Israeli teachers. So far, peace negotiations failed, and the teachers continue the racketeering strike. Israeli education is some of the worse in the civilized world.

Teachers’ blackmail continues

admin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:14:57 +0000

Striking Israeli teachers threaten to resign should the Education Ministry appeal their strike to the Labor Court. Farewell, I should say. A few hundred less leftists will be murdering the souls of young Jews.

Teachers: Too little pay for killing Jewish souls

admin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:38:26 +0000

Secondary school teachers’ trade union demand 15% salary hike to begin with, and negotiations over further rate hikes. Israeli schools are a bastion of leftist brainwashing.

Trade unions at work: Israeli ports on the brink of collapse

admin — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:49:14 +0000

Ashdod, Haifa ports operate much below their capacity. Ships are routinely delayed for several days. Freight companies decrease the cargo turnover through Israel. In the contrast, Dubai Port Authority delivers containers to customers in Jebel Ali Free Zone forty minutes after the ships dock in Dubai port.

Financial fraud in trade unions

admin — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:10:40 +0000

Police announce it gathered enough evidence to convict former Finance Minister Hirchson for fraud, theft, and money laundering during his years at the helm of National Workers Union.

Trade unions flexing muscles

admin — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:42:00 +0000

Histadrut racketeering organization euphemistically called a trade union, ended the strike after Finance Minister agreed to meager wage increases: 1.5% in January and another 1.5% in December 2008, and 2% in 2009. The strike apparently was not about wages, but reasserting Histadrut’s political power. Histadrut’s previous boss Peretz was Israeli Defense Minister through he couldn’t tell tanks from closed binoculars, and the current chief of Histadrut Ofer Eini also eyes political career.

Trade unions terrorize Israel

admin — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:30:14 +0000

Israeli band of trade unions Histadrut, a Soviet-era monster, again paralyzed Israeli economy over the wage demands. If government employees are unhappy with their salaries, they might quit and look for better-paid jobs, as all other workers do. Histadrut, however, blackmails the entire country. Israeli companies lose up to a billion shekels daily due to the strike, and common Israelis experience untold inconvenience. Ben Gurion airport will close down on Thursday due to the strike, and most government offices remain closed. Histadrut exempted the Defense Ministry from the strike.
Though monopolies are illegal and monopolistic extortion is a criminal offense, Knesset allows Histadrut to extort monopolistic profits ultimately at the consumers’ expense.

Robin Hoods from trade unions

admin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:36:24 +0000

Histadrut trade union threatens a strike if the government fails to meet its demand for the retroactive wage hike of 10.4% from 2001 for 600,000 bureaucrats. As if they don’t get enough bribes already.

Socialism hits Israeli police, post

admin — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:54:34 +0000

Interior Ministry and Postal Service office workers continue strike.

Luddites from the Education Ministry boycott computer system

admin — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:47:51 +0000

Bureaucrats from the Education Ministry strike, disrupt matriculation exams to protest installation of a new computer system.

Israel will provide welfare to children of immigrant workers

admin — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:15:32 +0000

Jews will pay to migrants who were invited to work in Israel precisely because they are cheap. Welfare to migrants’ children comes when Finance Ministry cannot allocate enough funds to Holocaust survivors or for other worthy purposes.

Educational bureaucracy wins: more superfluous lessons, more pay

admin — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:45:36 +0000

Work time increased 20%, salaries 25%. Teachers will spend only 2/3 of the paid time for teaching, and discharge unspecified administrative duties for the rest of the time paid by taxpayers. 1.1 billion shekels only to implement the changes.

Finance Ministry takes on Histadrut,

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:07:28 +0000

submits a law which allows the ministry to change pension provisions of the collective agreements. Unable to dismantle the socialist-era trade unions, Finance Ministry tries to usurp some of the Histadrut’s power.

Chemical company workers’ blackmail Israel over labor dispute

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:41:22 +0000

Makhteshim Agan vows to stop chlorine deliveries to water company Mekorot

Teachers will renew strike, protest study time reduction by 8 hours per week, demand 30% pay rise

admin — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:52:59 +0000

Study hours rise steadily for decades due to the labor pressure to employ more teachers and increase salaries.