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High school teachers union warn of looming strike over wage demands
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe national high school teachers’ union says that it plans to launch a nationwide strike on Tuesday over unmet wage demands.
In a statement, Ran Erez, longtime head of the Secondary School Teachers Union, warns that if talks about upping the planned wage increases for teachers do not end satisfactorily on Monday, the following morning will see Israel’s high school classrooms closed indefinitely.
The statement followed a “warning strike” last Sunday over what the union says is the Finance Ministry’s “foot dragging.”
The union claims the ministry intends to raise veteran teachers’ salaries by just 60 shekels per month, and those of new teachers by 300 shekels. The union has rejected the offer.
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