Israel

Teachers Strike to Escalate on Wednesday

Tuesday, June 21, 2022 4:37 pm | < 1 Minute Read

By Hamodia Staff

View of an empty school in Tel Aviv, as classes were delayed until 10 a.m. due to a teachers strike, set to go a full day Wednesday. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

YERUSHALAYIM – The Israel Teachers Union said that it plans to escalate its protests for higher wages with a full-day strike of elementary schools and daycare centers across the country on Wednesday.

Until now, the strikes have been limited to starting classes late, but as frustration over lack of progress in talks with the Finance Ministry mounts, the union decided to increase the pressure for a settlement.

“We have been negotiating with Finance Ministry officials for six months, but we have yet to receive even one concrete proposal,” union head Yaffa Ben David claimed in a statement announcing the move.

“I call once again on the Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman to come in person and sit down with the education minister, the director -general of the ministry, the person in charge of salaries and with me – tomorrow.” Special education facilities will continue to operate as normal. High schools will not be affected, as they went on summer vacation Monday.

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