Israel Matzav

BWAHAHAHAHAH! Haaretz going on open-ended strike

“Tomorrow, all of us, employees of all sections of the paper and the online edition, are going on strike,” the announcement said, adding “no employee will take pictures, no worker will write articles, no one will edit, design, produce, or interview until the end of the strike. Remember: there is no paper without journalists.”

The workers, who face wide-scale layoffs in the near future, said that at 4 p.m. Wednesday they will hold a meeting inside the paper’s headquarters on Shocken Street in south Tel Aviv, after which they will launch the open-ended strike.   

The workers said that management continues to ignore their protest efforts, creating the need for more drastic measures.

Last Sunday night, Haaretz employees held a partial work stoppage, shutting down the paper for around two hours in what was the first such action by the paper’s employees.

Shouting “no newspaper without journalists”, the employees of Haaretz and the Marker blocked Shocken Street outside the paper’s headquarters in south Tel Aviv, and demanded answers about the size and scope of the impending layoffs.

Labels: Haaretz, Israel's Hebrew Palestinian daily

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