Civil Aviation Authority strike to affect charter flights
Workers plan to strike starting Monday morning in protest of recruitment of employees on personal contract basis; charter flights which have not been approved yet will not be able to take off
Israeli Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) workers intend to strike starting Monday morning. Seventy employees will not come to work or carry out work-related tasks, including approval of flights and air traffic control.
As such, charter flights that have not yet been approved will not be able to take off until the strike ends.
Only a small number of charter flights will take off on Monday, and if the strikes continue all charter flights may be stopped completely.
The workers decided to launch the strike in protest of tenders issued by the Transportation Ministry for the recruitment of employees on a personal contract basis, contrary to a previous agreement with the Histadrut labor federation.
CAA employees already launched a strike about three weeks ago, which lasted a number of days. The CAA's workers union and the Histadrut are in the midst of negotiations with the Transportation Ministry over structural changes the government plans to implement in the CAA.
The changes include an increase in the number of employees, but mainly employing workers on a personal contract basis while modifying the employment conditions of the existing workers. Although there are no plans to fire any permanent workers, the employees fear the ramifications of the change and demand that it be implemented following negotiations with them.
The Transportation Ministry has yet to respond.
