VARIOUS: ISRAELI BANKS AND BEN GURION AIRPORT CLOSED IN FOUR HOUR GENERAL STRIKE

Record ID: 400868

  • Title: VARIOUS: ISRAELI BANKS AND BEN GURION AIRPORT CLOSED IN FOUR HOUR GENERAL STRIKE
  • Date: 3rd November 2003
  • Summary: (W3) BEN-GURION AIRPORT NEAR TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (NOVEMBER 3, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF EXTERIOR OF BEN GURION AIRPORT 0.05 2. SLV PASSENGERS WAITING OUTSIDE AIRPORT 0.10 3. VARIOUS OF EMPTY COUNTERS AT AIRPORT (2 SHOTS) 0.20 4. SLV AIRPORT STAFF STANDING BY BARRIER 0.25 5. CLOSE OF BLANK INFORMATION SCREENS WITH
  • Embargoed: 18th November 2003 12:00
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  • Location: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL/JERUSALEM
  • City:
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA1VUT6DB3BCGST1EMP3AQGMQYO
  • Story Text: Airport and Israeli banks hit in four hour general
    strike



    An Israeli court has issued a last-minute injunction
    barring the Histadrut labour federation from launching an
    open-ended general strike that had threatened to paralyse
    the whole economy.

    But the court gave the Histadrut, which represents
    hu
    ndreds of thousands of public sector workers, permission
    to hold a four-hour strike, throwing the country into
    confusion over when
    essential services would be disrupted.

    Histadrut officials announced the federation's planned
    strike had begun at 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) in protest at
    government plans to lay off workers and reform pension
    programmes. Workers at Tel Aviv's international airport
    began striking at 8 a.m. (0600 GMT).

    In West Jerusalem, clients arrived to find the banks
    closed, though gas stations remained for the most part
    open.





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