Elad Mikvah cleaners strike: "serious crime"

The cleaners strike of Ram C.R M., who are responsible for maintenance and cleaning at the Elad Mikvah's, continues.

Dror Atari, Cleaners Association CEO, strongly backed up the employees. "Elad Municipality has been holding its service contractors hostage for eight months of and are not paying their debts," he said in a conversation with B'Chadrei Charedim. "We see the act as a serious crime that could lead to the collapse of the company and severely hurt the employees."

Atari says: "the government must intervene immediately in the phenomenon of withholding wages from the public sector of the contractor's employees, since these workers will fall as a burden on the government. This is arrogance and insolence of the local council which affects conscious workers' rights with the clear intention not to pay the company the payments they owe it.

"It is time that one who requires service and in this case a local authority should stop hiding behind the service contractor whilst consciously damaging the workers' rights," said Atari, adding that "it cannot be that a company will not be paid for eight months of work and you can't continue to not pay its employees which can also bring about its collapse."

Sanitation workers, 15 in total, came to demonstrate early this week outside the city council and in front of the Mikvah's.

For the past eight months the city has failed to pay the contractor for his work, and during this period the contractor paid through his own funds until the debt reached the amount of 800 thousand shekels. The contractor announced on Thursday that he cannot absorb the payments and that all employees will be laid off.

A letter arrived to B'Chadrei Charedim whivh which was dated -8.8.12 there the mayor, Yitzchak Eidan apologizes for not paying the cleaning company on time, and undertakes to pay the councils debt to the company. Despite the promises, the council has not yet paid the debt.

As mentioned, the peak came when some of the Mikvah's remained locked last weekend, and in some other Mikvah's local Rabbi's turned into cleaners.
Letter from Mayor, Yitzchak Eidan.

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