Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Human Resources: Palestinian civil servants to strike

Palestinian civil servants have announced they would launch an open-ended strike on September 2nd.

More than 165,000 Palestinians are employed by the Palestinian Authority, of those, some 80,000 will go on strike, including 40,000 teachers and 25,000 health workers. However, more than 80,000 members of the security forces will not join the strike.

Due to sanctions, Hamas has been unable to pay the workers in full. Since March.