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Control tower failure causing delays at Ben-Gurion (BNI-JAN.29) Air traffic in and out of Ben-Gurion International Airport is delayed to the crash of the air traffic control flight monitoring system. The technicians responsible for maintaining the system are striking, further complicating the situation.

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), January 29, 2001

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Nando Times

Israeli state workers widen strike; flights resumed

By JACK KATZENELL, Associated Press

JERUSALEM (January 29, 2001 7:28 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Israeli state employees widened their strike Monday to include workers from the oil and fuel sector, but flights in and out of the country's international airport resumed after being canceled for a day.

Workers at the state-owned oil refinery and fuel transport company joined the stoppage and the giant Histadrut labor federation said more employees in the health services might also strike.

"It's still not a general strike," said Histadrut spokesman Giora Tsur. "For instance, the hospitals are still open."

At Ben-Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv, flights were almost back to normal after a one-day stoppage.

Some 400,000 public sector employees are either on strike or are conducting a go-slow as the Histadrut presses for wage hikes and improved pensions. The government has rejected the unions' demands, arguing they would fuel inflation.

The work stoppage includes government ministries, local authorities, nearly all the state-owned companies, including the Bezeq telecommunications corporation, the seaports and the railways. Uncollected garbage was piled up in the streets of the main cities.

The Health Ministry advised the public to boil water because the technicians who test the water supply for bacteria were on strike. Nurses and administrative staff at some clinics were on strike, although the doctors were working.

"If the strike continues, the absence of monitoring of the water supply, the accumulation of garbage and the restriction of medical services could pose a threat to the public and we may have to ask the courts to intervene," said Yitzhak Berlovich, assistant director of the Ministry of Health.

Union and Finance Ministry negotiators were due to meet Monday in an attempt to reach agreement.

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), January 30, 2001.


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