Employees at the Dimona nuclear reactor announced sanctions and are threatening to escalate them to a full-fledged strike, Channel 2 reports.
The reactor’s employee union, headed by Oded Dana, decided today to stop work at the facility over what they call unilateral steps taken by management against employees. The workers are protesting what they call harm to their rights as employees and their union.
They claim the facility’s management is recruiting workers from the outside and is signing private contracts with them, secretly and without oversight from the union.
Employees also say that management is promoting employees without publishing tenders for their positions.
The management of the facility — one of the most secret in the country — says in response that there is “no justification” to steps taken by the employee union. “There is a new union head there who hopes through this futile steps to resolve internal disagreements in the union. The management of the Bureau for Nuclear Research works according to labor agreements, but the employee meeting today was disorderly, illegal and not in line with work agreements,” the statement ends.
The Nuclear Research Center NEGEV, located in Dimona. (screen capture: YouTube, via Channel 10)
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