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Gaza municipality employees go on strike

author Saturday August 11, 2007 13:50author by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News Report this post to the editors

The employees of Gaza City municipality announced on Saturday an open ended strike for not receiving their salaries since December 2006, the employees said that this strike has no political or factional orientation.

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The strikers called upon all factions not to force any political or factional conflict on their strike, adding that the strike will be finished as soon as they get their salaries. The 1000 municipality employees are part of the 64, 000 public sector employees that are not paid by the Palestinian government.

The EU USA and Israeli has forced a crippling financial siege on the Palestinian Authority shortly after Hamas won the Palestinian democratic elections in 2006. The employees expressed their deep sorrow for being forced to go on strike, but the strikers say that they always made the city as their first priority, but now most of them can't feed their families.

category gaza strip | internal unrest | news report author email ghassanb at imemc dot org

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