ISRAEL

ISRAEL: Government moves to avert lecturer strike

Negotiations were held last Thursday between education ministry officials and the Senior Lecturers Union, which represents Israel's university professors, to try and prevent a university lecturers strike, reports the Jerusalem Post.

The union said it would not open the just-starting next academic year, because a collective wage agreement had been missing since 2001 and wages had eroded significantly.
Full report on the Post site