The Ministry of Education and the Association of Secondary School Teachers both prepared today for a long strike with most of the country’s high schools closed following the walkout yesterday of some 1,500 high school teachers.
The Education Ministry announced that graduation examinations would be held even if the strike continued. At the same time, the association announced that teachers’ salaries next month would be paid out of the group’s strike fund. The association also announced plans to open employment offices to assist teachers in finding temporary jobs while the strike continued.
The association, which broke away from membership in the Histadrut, the Israel Federation of Labor, scored a significant victory today when most of the secondary school teachers who had remained in the Histadrut, joined the strike “as a sign of solidarity.”
The striking teachers demand higher-wages and a new category ending an arrangement which links their incomes to grade-school teachers.
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