A sudden work stoppage by 250 ground staff employes delayed El Al flights to the U.S. and Europe last week, affecting about 700 passengers. It was the first job action to hit the State-owned airline since it was placed in receivership and reorganized three years ago. The employes walked off the job to attend a union “education and instruction meeting” to discuss the delayed payment of promised efficiency bonuses. They denied they were striking. El Al was on the brink of collapse in 1983 after years of strikes and job actions by one or another of the scores of workers committees, each representing relatively small groups of employes.
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