The day before the elevator disaster: The firefighter committee chairman announced sanctions on the array

Before the storm that resulted in the death of the two young people trapped in the flooded elevator, the chairman of the firefighting committee announced sanctions under which the array will enter the Sabbath format, following the rejection of his demand for unique working conditions for the committee chairman. The Histadrut claims that the strike was declared due to the transfer of firefighters from their district. The court canceled the sanctions

The day before the elevator disaster: The firefighter committee chairman announced sanctions on the array

The day before the Tel Aviv Elevator disaster in which Dean Shoshani and Autumn Harari were killed, Chairman of the Fire Employees Avi Ankuri, under the auspices of the Flying Federation, Gil Bar-Tal, announced sanctions during which the campaign will enter the Saturday format. At the hearing (Sunday) at the Jerusalem Labor Court, the judge accepted the fire request and instructed not to comply with the Histadrut's instruction regarding the Shabbat format. In addition, the judge canceled the committee chairman's order not to increase stations and the matter is at the discretion of the county commander.

Shortly after the disaster, neighbors in the building made numerous allegations against rescue forces that were delayed from arriving. A report from the Fire Commission revealed that thousands of inquiries arrived between 12:00 and 1:30 pm when the hotline collapsed and managed to handle only two hundred. According to the report, the divers took about an hour and a half to reach Shoshani and Harari from the time the occupants tried to alert the police and firefighters. The announcement of the downtime reveals little of what happened on the backstage before the disaster.

This is not a one-time shutdown announcement, but threats that are regularly returned by the committee chairman, especially at times when the fire department should be on a weather alert or security alert, as happened last Friday, with the assassination of Kassem Suleimani. From 300 announcements of sanctions in the fire service.

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The parking lot that was flooded yesterday during rescue operations (Photo: Arison Enler)

The parking lot in the Hope neighborhood flooded yesterday, killing 2 young people, January 4, 2019 (Photo: Arison Enler, official website)

Chairman of the Fire Commissioner Avi Ankuri

According to sources in the firefighting department, the chairman of the Flying Federation Gil Bar-Tal met with Fire Commissioner Dadi Simhi last Thursday, and demanded unique terms of employment for the committee chairman. Bar-Tal threatened that if the terms of employment were not accepted, the Histadrut would declare war on the fire commission. The demands submitted to Commissioner Dadi Simhi were that the chairman of the board be accommodated during the shift in the board room, payment of an additional 50 hours retrospectively irrespective of execution, reimbursement for days when he is not at work of NIS 170,000 and in four out of ten shifts, he will deal with ". In my opinion, the committee will only go to operational events during extreme events.

What preceded this demand is a hearing at the Haifa Labor Court, in which the Histadrut demanded offsets on days when the Ankuri committee chairman did not come to work. Deputy Chief Justice Yigal Glam rejected the request, and according to the protocol, the Ankuri hearing said: "You work full-time like any other. Another employee, neither better nor better, you come on shift and do work, do what needs to be done, sign a card like any other employee. "

The Deputy Chief Justice added that "before you chair a committee and you work in the civil service, and work under the fire department for all that implied." Glam went on to reprimand Ancori, saying "there is no law provision that allows the chairman to not work or work 80 percent Job or work on a different scale from other employees. " He added that the chairman of the committee should not receive any discounts, and that there is no provision to allow that. The judge also added that the chairman of the committee actually works 11 shifts a month, which is one third of the month, which gives him about twenty days to work on the committee's affairs. At the conclusion of the hearing, the judge asked to review Ankuri's continued conduct and try to reach consensus.

In a building where they were killed in an elevator, the rescue forces are accused: "There was no situation that someone came out alive"

The decision of the fire department to operate in the Shabbat format

Firemen's decision to operate on Saturday (Photo: official website)

The Histadrut realized that it could not get a response from the tribunal, and asked to meet with the Fire Commissioner, who rejected all requests presented regarding the terms of employment unique to the chairman of the committee. In response, the chairman of the Histadrut, backed by the Histadrut, issued a letter announcing the shutdown of the fire department on Friday morning. . As part of the downtime, the array was operated in a Saturday format, and not according to the alert that was announced that morning. In the letter, the Chairman of the Ankuri Committee stated that "in light of the fire officer's harassment and the damage to the organization's freedom, and upon receiving the approval of the Histadrut, I hereby instruct the entire fire department to enter into the Shabbat format, from this moment on, all implied. Jerusalem District, excluding operational issues. " The letter also states that "no exceptions will occur, and the inflammation prevention section will also be included in a full Sabbath format."

This means that except for departing from operational events, no equipment is returned to operational competence, training, briefings and lessons learned from operational events and national exercises.

Gil Bar Tal said in response that it was two different events that the commissioner connected to one. "The Haifa Tribunal sought to reach an agreement within a period of two weeks until the permanent hearing before it on the terms of employment of the Chairman of the Committee. Last Thursday, I went to speak to the Fire Service Commissioner about the terms of employment. At the same time, the commissioner announced that he would not employ firefighters in overtime but would move between areas even though firefighters were being funded for tenders at a specific station. " Jerusalem. Commissioner of the hour and harassed an outstanding officer who refused to move. "

An agreed outline on the Histadrut for employing Ankuri

Agreed outline of the Historia hiring union (Photo: official website)

The Labor Court's decision to prevent fire service sanctions

Labor Court decision to prevent fire service sanctions, January 5, 2020 (Photo: official website)