Fuel shortages were reported yesterday in the towns of Bat Yam and Rishon LeTzion as a result of the Pi Gelilot fuel workers’ strike. The shortage is expected to spread to other areas today, as gasoline deliveries from the company’s facility near Herzliya remain halted. The Pi Gelilot employees are protesting the closing of several of the company’s depots, which will result in dismissals, and demand cost-of-living increases.
The government has entered the picture in order to help end the strike. The Ministry of Infrastructures has proposed to increase the price of fuel by a half-agora per liter to assist Pi Gelilot’s management in meeting some of its workers’ demands. The ministry says that the price increase is meant to compensate for the additional security expenses the company has been forced to absorb following an attempted “mega-attack” by Arab terrorists this past May. In that incident a bomb was detonated under a fuel tank inside the Herzliya station, but the flames were extinguished and no one was injured.
The government has entered the picture in order to help end the strike. The Ministry of Infrastructures has proposed to increase the price of fuel by a half-agora per liter to assist Pi Gelilot’s management in meeting some of its workers’ demands. The ministry says that the price increase is meant to compensate for the additional security expenses the company has been forced to absorb following an attempted “mega-attack” by Arab terrorists this past May. In that incident a bomb was detonated under a fuel tank inside the Herzliya station, but the flames were extinguished and no one was injured.