10.03.2011                      04.Adar ll, 5771

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Social workers’ strike goes on as latest wage talks stall

Union spokesman tells 'Post' Finance Ministry offered no mechanisms to ensure state-funded NGOs would indeed pay proposed salaries.

Yet another round of talks between social workers and the Finance Ministry came to an abrupt end late Wednesday night after the sides failed to reach agreement on a wage hike for social workers employed by NGOs.
Social Workers Union spokesman David Golan told The Jerusalem Post that while the Finance Ministry proposed a minimum wage of NIS 6,000 for these employees, it offered no mechanisms to ensure that the state-funded NGOs would indeed pay such salaries….