Workers committee: The strike protests conduct by the Ashdod Port CEO.
Ashdod Port Company Ltd. drivers are on strike today at the order of the port's managers workers committee. The six drivers carry out internal trips, and are supposed to unload cars from a ship that will anchor on Saturday night.
The workers committee says that the strike is to protest alleged conduct by Ashdod Port acting CEO Yitzhak Blumenthal. The workers committee alleges that he requested a particular driver for internal trips at the port, which disrupted the drivers' work schedules and forced the port to hire an outside contractor at a high cost.
The Ashdod Port management said in response, "This morning, the Ashdod Port's managers workers committee launched labor disruptions by the drivers in an attempt to encroach on issues that are the purview of management. The company's management will not allow the workers committee to continue to try and encroach on issues related to management's responsibility."
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on April 24, 2014
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