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The senior faculty at the universities started sanctions yesterday in order to promote a new salary agreement, just before the end of the semester.
The timing provoked criticism among the students, who say that they support the struggle - but find it difficult to accept the damage during the exam period.
At this stage, the coordinating council of the senior faculty organizations in the universities ordered them to refrain from answering student questions related to the exams, not to send the students scores on tests and assignments, and not to forward to the secretariat the wording of the second term exams.
"Right now most of the students are mostly afraid. We only heard about the sanctions and we don't know how far it will go," said Mein Galili, a student of economics and history at the Hebrew University, and an activist in the "Together" group.
"Wages have eroded significantly."
Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University (Photo: ShutterStock)
However, Galili claims that "as soon as the Ministry of Finance decided not to raise the salary, they knew that there would be sanctions. In the short term, the Ministry of Finance has the responsibility, and in the long term, we want to have satisfied lecturers. We have a common interest with them. Obviously, there is also anger on the part of some students, but This is the tool that the lecturers have in the struggle."
"On the one hand, I understand their need to protest and improve their conditions, but it is very annoying that we are a bargaining chip," said another student.
"There's no doubt that I'm worried about how the exam period will go. In slightly more difficult courses that have an exam, it's really scary that there might not be a sophomore deadline."
Noa Bar On, a student at Tel Aviv University, received the message on WhatsApp from the representatives of the student union.
"We are the only party harmed by the sanctions and the feeling is that we have fallen into a situation that does not concern us at all and that there is no justification for harming us, especially not before an exam period," she said.
"Beyond the psychological damage, there is also financial damage to the students, who will not be able to get answers from their lecturers and will be forced to hire private tutors for a fee. And in the worst case, they will have to pay out of their own money for a repeat course, because they were not given a basic opportunity to go to the second semester and improve their grade."
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The students may have been surprised by the announcement, but the sanctions came after prolonged attempts to resolve the issue.
The salary agreement of the senior staff expired three years ago.
Since then they have tried to promote talks with the committee of heads of the universities and the Ministry of Finance, but even when they met they were unable to reach an agreement.
Last month, the Coordinating Council announced a labor dispute due to "conduct in a way that is contrary to the long-standing collective labor relations in the workplace and in bad faith and dragging its feet in negotiations."
"Not only has our salary not increased - but it has eroded significantly in recent years," explained the chairman of the council, Prof. Anat Zaira. According to her, the steps are "measured, careful and graduated," and may increase in the future. "As long as there is no immediate and sufficient progress in the negotiations With us, we will be forced to take additional organizational steps that will gradually escalate."
Today, the starting basic salary of starting senior faculty members is about NIS 8,000-9,000, and together with various supplements it reaches about NIS 14,000 gross.
This, when the average age to receive the standard is 35-45.
Their current demand is a horizontal increase of 2.5% of the salary for each year since the end of the previous agreement.
The members of the senior faculty make it clear that they would not want to make it difficult for the students, and that this is the only way to create pressure that will bring about change.
"This is the way of sanctions," said one of them.
"If it didn't bother anyone, then it wouldn't bother anyone. The measures are controlled, with minimal harm to the students. Many of us are not happy that this is happening at the current time, precisely because of the other protests that need to be concentrated on."
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doubt the implementation of the measures
Beyond that, some students and lecturers expressed doubts about the actual implementation of the current measures.
"There are lecturers who do not talk about the sanctions, and close the semester as usual," said a student at a large university.
In some institutions, students said that they had not heard about the changes at all, either because of the short time that had passed since the announcement, or because of the ignorance of the lecturers who did not want to implement them.
"It will be very difficult to carry out a strike of this kind. It seems to me that this is more of a statement than something real," claimed a senior faculty member at Tel Aviv University.
"I suppose some of the faculty will implement, but it is very difficult not to answer students' questions before the exam. It's the kind of thing that can't really be enforced significantly. It probably prepares the strike at the beginning of the next semester."
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