UN employees in Gaza strike against cost-cutting measures
GAZA CITY - Thousands of employees of the United Nations' Palestinian refugee agency in the Gaza Strip are striking against cost-cutting measures the agency is imposing to overcome a financial crisis.
The protesters say they want the commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency to cancel measures that would allow the agency to impose one-year unpaid leave on staff and increase the number of students in UN-run classrooms.
Some 13,000 teachers, health workers and other employees are on strike. A demonstration Monday outside the agency's Gaza headquarters was the largest of a series of demonstrations in recent weeks.
UNRWA spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna said the unpaid leave measure has been frozen.
