A sure sign that Rosh HaShanah is on the way is a strike at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport.
The airport workers’ committee once again has found a reason to shut down the airport during the peak summer travel season and only two weeks before high passenger traffic on the eve of the Rosh HaShanah new year holiday.
The workers’ committee excuse this time is its “solidarity” with the Israel Broadcasting Authority, an over-budgeted and over-staffed agency whose employees are in an uproar because of a long overdue government decision to overhaul the agency.
The strike at the airport will be between 10 a.m. and noon, when no flights will be allowed to take off or land.
Workers committee chairman Pinchas Idan revealed his real fear. by stating that if the government gets way and makes the Broadcasting Authority more efficient, it might do the same at the airport.
In his words, reported by Globes:
I call on all workers committees to demonstrate solidarity with the Israel Broadcasting Authority employees in their struggle which is being led by the Histadrut. I call on the legislation to be halted and dialogue begun.
Today the Broadcasting Authority. Tomorrow all of us.
