Saturday, January 19, 2008

Headline: Teachers' Strike Becomes Comedy

From the Jerusalem Post, following the Senior Lecturers' solving their labour dispute:

Head of the Coordinating Forum of Junior Academic Staff Associations in Israel Eli Lohar told the Post Saturday night that the group had sent an urgent letter to the Committee of University Presidents (CUP) demanding talks over their working conditions.

"We are not striking yet, but we have called on the CUP to begin talks with us in the coming days. If they decline, we will weigh our options carefully. So far we have not heard from them," he said.

Lohar said the junior faculty's demands focused on pensions, seniority, severance and the other benefits they feel they should receive from the universities but do not.

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"After a war, a student strike and a lecturers strike, we will not raise tuition," she said.

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