The Senate of the Haifa Institute of Technology held an emergency meeting today to consider a threatened strike by 1, 200 administrative employes and 650 members of the academic staff over non-payment of salary arrears totaling 4, 000, 000 pounds ($1,333,000).
Academic personnel at all Israeli institutions of higher learning have scheduled a general walkout starting next Monday if back pay arrears are not included with January paychecks.
There were reports that the Technion’s executive council, made up of 20 members of the school’s board of governors, might resign over the strike issue and the possibility that recently-elected President Alexander Goldberg might offer to return his mandate was not ruled out.
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