Israeli Nurses Strike to Protest Inaction
From Reuters
TEL AVIV —
Israel’s 11,000 hospital nurses abandoned their ward duties Friday morning, observing a six-hour strike to protest what they complain is the government’s lack of interest in solving their salary demands.
Minimum staffs were being maintained in intensive-care units, premature baby wards and dialysis departments. Elective surgery was postponed.
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