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Last week, Jerusalem City Hall announced it was making good on threats to fire city workers as a result of a the lack of national government assistance. The first of many to be dismissed were sanitation workers, leading to a garbage collection strike, which continued on erev Shabbos and on Sunday, 22 Teves.
The piling garbage and the heavy rains over Shabbos have left a most uncomfortable situation in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda shuk as the photos indicate.
Thankfully, the sanitation strike came to an end Sunday evening following emergency negotiations between the Jerusalem Municipality and Finance Ministry, which agreed to immediately transfer NIS 17 million to rehire the 170 workers fired on Thursday.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Disgraceful
Why should the Finance Ministry being paying for garbage collectors in Yerushalayim?? This is municipal expense and they need to manage their budget within their means.
We Jerusalemites get this ever couple of years. NOrmally the garbage workers wait for the week before Pesach, but now they decided to take a vacation now.
The city will pay up, what else can they do. in the meantime we suffer….
#2: As the capital city, Jerusalem receives extra funding from the national budget. The dispute is over the amount of this extra funding.