Israel – Workers at Ben Gurion Airport have announced a strike to go into effect between the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Thursday.
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70 flights are scheduled to land or take off at the airport during the hours of the planned strike.
The strike comes as an act of solidarity with Israel Postal Company workers as that strike widens to include other members of the public services sector.
Public services at district health offices around the country were disrupted on Tuesday for the same reasons of solidarity.
The labor dispute at the Israel Postal Company resulted in Histadrut calling for sanctions in various public institutions to protest threats of structural changes and dismissals of postal workers, and this time it was the turn of the district health offices, which are owned and run by the Health Ministry.
This is no big deal, but if they follow up on their threat to strike again early next week, it might inconvenience travelers heading to and from EY for the yamim noraim. It would be unfortunate if an otherwise understandable labor action was to result in frum yidden having to be mechallel yom tov by flying on the first day of rosh hashonah on other airlines.
Some people might be forced to daven Yomin Noraim in EY., nebech!