The Histadrut, Israel's leading workers union, began a nationwide strike this morning in protest over the withholding of salaries of 6,000 civil service employees. Several local authorities in Israel are in deep deificits and have been unable to pay the salaries of their employees for months and in some cases even years. The Histadrut is demanding the immediate payment of all past funds.
Among the national services which did not operate today is Ben-Gurion international airport, the train system, the mail service, certain sections within the university and the prominent phone company, Bezeq.
Ministers of the treasury and the interior are currently meeting with chairman of the Histadrut in the hopes of coming to a solution that will prevent another day of general strike.
The strike is widely supported by the Israeli public who is furious with the fact that workers did not receive their salaries.
Financial sources estimate the daily damage of the strike to be 350 million shekels, somewhere in the area of 81 million $
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