The Israel Cabinet, at an extraordinary session, today strongly urged the Secondary Schoolteachers Association, which has called a one-day strike for Thursday not to disrupt education activities.
Abba Eban, Minister of Education, was instructed to convey the Government’s position to the teachers who called the strike to protest delays in examinations of their pay and working conditions in a long-drawn out dispute.
The conflict has been complicated by a warning from the Histadrut, Israel’s Labor Federation,–from which the secondary teachers split away to form an independent union to the Government not to negotiate with the teachers. The Government in effect has been complying with that warning during the year-long dispute.
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proposed to end the deadlock by setting up a Government arbitration service. The teachers association said they had to reject the proposal because it had been watered down to make it acceptable to the Histadrut.
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