A strike that would have shut down the city-run Tel Aviv Museum was averted Wednesday when employees and management agreed to arbitration.
At the center of the dispute is the museum’s director, Marc Sheps. Employees began job actions last week to protest his decision to fire 22 tenured workers as an economy measure.
The employees refused to collect admission fees during the morning hours; Sheps countered by waiving the fees for the entire day.
Visitors were asked to make voluntary donations and, according to management, $500 a day was collected in the past two days, roughly the equivalent of the admission fees.
Sheps has proposed closing some of the museum’s departments. Employees claim his mismanagement is responsible for the financial troubles and have urged Mayor Shlomo Lehat to dismiss the director.
But Lehat expressed confidence in the man he appointed, despite public criticism.
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