Foreign Ministry Workers Likely to Declare Strike

Foreign Ministry workers raised a black flag on the ministry’s flagpole on Sunday morning, to protest their work conditions. Over 100 employees stood outside the ministry building with signs reading slogans like “don’t rely on us,” and “you can’t pay for groceries with patriotism.” Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (Iftach Ophir) in a satirical video released…

Foreign Ministry suspended labor sanctions

Foreign Ministry employees suspended on Thursday months of sanctions they have been maintaining in protest over working conditions, after Foreign and Finance Ministry representatives agreed to approach a mediator, the National Labor Court announced Wednesday. The employees, who have gradually stepped up sanctions over the past five months, are protesting wage cuts and reductions in…

Netanyahu calls in the army to bust strike in Foreign Ministry

Foreign Ministry employees, who are protesting their salary conditions, are angry at the Prime Minister’s Bureau for turning to IDF military attache to help arrange cabinet ministers’ trip to Poland. According to “Haaretz”, with Foreign Ministry employees on strike, senior officials in the Prime Minister’s Bureau asked a military attache to arrange an upcoming visit…

Foreign Ministry employees declare labor dispute

On the eve of the US President Barak Obama visit to Israel, the Foreign Ministry employees declared on Thursday a labor dispute. Two years ago, a foreign ministry strike scuttled the planned visit of then-Russian president Dmitri Medvedev. According to a statement that the workers’ committee put out, the dispute was declared to improve the…