Israel’s 5500 postal workers went on a 24-hour strike yesterday because of unclear wording on a new wage agreement.
The workers blamed Meir Cohen, a Likud MK appointed to arbitrate the dispute, for the ambiguous language. Cohen proposed that some of the postal employes should receive a 40 per cent raise but his decision was worded in a manner that confused the workers as to which of them were or were not entitled to the increase. Some workers expressed dissatisfaction with his decision as a whole. Meanwhile, Attorney General Aharon Barak ruled that Cohen could no longer serve as arbitrator in the dispute because he had made his views public before it was settled.
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