Jerusalem Post printing employees arrived at work on Tuesday morning, only to find the gates locked - and most of them out of a job. Danny Ben-Sheetrit, chairman of the Jerusalem region of the Histadrut Labor Union, told Arutz-7 that the paper has decided to transfer most of its printing operations to two new locations - and that one of them is Ramallah, the Palestinian Authority "capital" in Judea/Samaria.
The 40 workers were told on Tuesday that most of them were fired, and that the management was interested in keeping only nine (20, according to other reports). After two days of hopeful but fruitless negotiations, the workers have chained themselves to the gates and are not allowing the printing of the daily edition, nor are they permitting entry into Post offices. The workers say that if no solution is found, they will bring their family members along to their Sunday protest. Arutz-7's calls to Jerusalem Post management offices for comment went unanswered.
The 40 workers were told on Tuesday that most of them were fired, and that the management was interested in keeping only nine (20, according to other reports). After two days of hopeful but fruitless negotiations, the workers have chained themselves to the gates and are not allowing the printing of the daily edition, nor are they permitting entry into Post offices. The workers say that if no solution is found, they will bring their family members along to their Sunday protest. Arutz-7's calls to Jerusalem Post management offices for comment went unanswered.