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The ultimatum has expired: Supervised daycare centers have announced sanctions back from the holidays
The educational frameworks demanded an increase in budget and manpower and improved employment conditions, but they claim that the Ministries of Finance and Economy refuse to sit down with them for negotiations. It's lawlessness "
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Sonia Gorodisky
Sunday, 26 September 2021, 14:07 Updated: 14:08
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The supervised daycare organizations announced today (Sunday) that they intend to carry out their threat, reduce hours of operation upon return to activity at the end of the Sukkot holiday next Sunday and strike completely from next Sunday, after their demands for additional budget and manpower and improved employment conditions were not met. As a result, parents of about 120,000 toddlers up to 3 years of age may be left without frames for their children immediately after the holidays.
In recent weeks, the supervised day care centers, including WIZO and NAMAT, have gone out to fight for low wages, a severe shortage of workers and to enter into negotiations with decision-makers. As part of the sanctions, from Wednesday the dormitories will only open from 10:00 in the morning, and from Sunday they will be completely closed indefinitely. The day care centers say that they also asked the Ministers of Finance and Economy, Avigdor Lieberman and Orna Barbibai, to enter into negotiations with them to prevent the strike, but they did not respond. According to the heads of the organizations representing the dormitory workers, they had no choice but to strike.
"The government is forcing us to launch sanctions and a strike by refusing to negotiate with us. This is a direct blow to children, parents and caregivers. The Israeli government disclaims responsibility for early childhood education and neglects it," it said.
"Instead of embracing children, we go out to fight for the future of early childhood education. Supervised day care centers suffer from a shortage of hundreds of workers due to low wages, complex conditions and significant wage gaps in relation to kindergarten assistants in local government - this is lawlessness."
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In their appeal to the government about two weeks ago, the protesters stated that "supervised day care centers suffer from a shortage of hundreds of workers due to the low wages, complex conditions and significant wage disparities in relation to kindergarten assistants in local government leading to abandonment of supervised caregivers."
According to them, the wage gap between an assistant employed in supervised day care centers and an assistant employed through local government in urban parks can reach tens of percent.
For example, the average monthly salary of a beginning educator-caregiver is about 5,700 gross, while the salary of an assistant kindergarten teacher in the local government is about 8,300 shekels gross.
They also wrote at the time that "if the difficulties we have experienced so far are not enough, the responsibility for early childhood education has recently split into three government ministries: the Ministry of Welfare and Social Security, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Education. .
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