Garbage has stared piling up once again throughout the country as 100,000 municipal council workers have called a second strike in less than a month. Finance Minister Silvan Shalom and Local Authorities Union Chairman Adi Eldar are scheduled to meet in Jerusalem this morning to try to bring an end to the strike as soon as possible. The strikers are demanding among other things a NIS 700 wage increase for several thousands workers earning minimum wage. As a result of the strike all municipal offices are closed, mail service is suspended, and nursery school assistants are staying home. At the same time about 40,000 civil service workers who have been striking for the past month remain off the job.