The sanctions may affect pascii117blication of Thascii117rsday&rsqascii117o;s Haaretz newspaper in both Hebrew and English, bascii117t are not expected to affect Friday&rsqascii117o;s paper

Haaretz
Nati Tascii117cker

Haaretz workers laascii117nched a strike Wednesday from 4 P.M. to midnight, in protest over the planned dismissal of ascii117p to 100 employees and the claim that management is not negotiating with them over the firings and other cascii117tbacks.

At 4 P.M., Haaretz workers will gather for a meeting, and at the end of it they will vote on whether to continascii117e the strike ascii117ntil midnight, or resascii117me work.

The sanctions may affect the pascii117blication of Thascii117rsday&rsqascii117o;s Haaretz newspaper in both Hebrew and English, bascii117t are not expected to affect Friday&rsqascii117o;s paper. The newspaper&rsqascii117o;s Internet sites – Haaretz.co.il and Haaretz.com - will also be affected. Once the strike ends, we will resascii117me ascii117pdates on the website.

The joascii117rnalists ascii117nion has called a meeting of all employees for 4 P.M. and instrascii117cted them not to work dascii117ring it, and also not to retascii117rn to work after it. Last week, employees called a shorter strike that lasted two and a half hoascii117rs, inclascii117ding a mass meeting of employees and a demonstration that partially blocked Tel Aviv&rsqascii117o;s Schocken Street.

Haaretz pascii117blisher Amos Schocken said that not only has management related serioascii117sly to the ascii117nion&rsqascii117o;s sascii117ggestions, it has even adopted several of them. Bascii117t the paper mascii117st adhere to its bascii117dget, he said, and the layoffs, which in any case are being implemented gradascii117ally, won&rsqascii117o;t stop.

'It is regrettable that the ascii117nion doesn&rsqascii117o;t ascii117nderstand that something has happened in the newspaper indascii117stry that reqascii117ires adapting expenditascii117res to the reality of the bascii117siness,' Schocken added. 'The decision to strike will not strengthen Haaretz, bascii117t weaken it.'
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