Almost like clockwork, as the Yomim Tovim approach employees in Ben-Gurion International Airport begin threatening a strike. On Wednesday, workers began a work slowdown so if you are one of hundreds of thousands of passengers expected to pass through the airport during the Tishrei holiday season, you might think twice about planning to take off on time or landing and receiving your luggage without a hitch. During Wednesday’s work slowdown, 20 flights were delayed for 20 minutes to an hour.
Employees this week declared a ‘work dispute’. During the two-week period of a ‘work dispute’ a strike is not permitted. The time period is to permit negotiations to prevent a strike but if an agreement is not reached, a strike is permitted following the hiatus period.
One of the passengers commented on Wednesday that the behavior of airport workers is disgraceful, explaining they always fight their battles on “the backs of travelers” and once again times it during peak season. During the coming days and weeks, 55,000 passengers are expected to pass through the airport daily.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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every year t same story
look on the bright side – at least they won’t be working on shabbos and yom tov
Fly into Amman and take a taxi to Jerusalem. It takes about the same amount of time and is a lot cheaper.
They learn from the terrorists the strategy of hurting as many innocent defenseless people as possible to gain leverage toward recieving their demands. This is the world we live in. Anyone have any ideas how to change this?
Uva leTzion Goel
Here we go again. They need to do what happened in the US when there was a strike by the control tower workers. As soon as they left their posts the FAA already had replacements. They came running back. If only they could do this in Israel…..