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Talks for solving Foreign Ministry strike continue

MARCH 27, 2014 03:07

Representatives of the Finance Ministry and the Foreign Ministry’s workers committee met Wednesday for the second day to try and end the long-standing labor dispute that has crippled the Foreign Ministry.

The Foreign Ministry workers declared a strike on Sunday, following three weeks of work sanctions.

The workers took issue Wednesday to comments Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman made at a press conference a day earlier, claiming that, as a result of the strike, Israelis who died abroad were unable to be flown back to Israel for burial, or babies born from surrogate mothers abroad were stranded in Nepal and unable to return home.

These claims are not true, one worker said, adding that the workers committee had approved providing the consular services needed to fly the bodies of six Israelis back home for burial, and to bring to the country babies born from surrogates abroad.

The workers also disputed the level of salaries Liberman said Israel’s ambassadors make abroad. At the press conference the minister cited the 10,000 euro monthly salary drawn by the ambassador in Germany, and the nearly $10,000 salary paid to Israel’s envoy in Nepal.

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