Leaders of The Union of Local Authorities (ULA) announced on Sunday that they are ordering a two-hour local government strike on Wednesday (May 13) in protest of planned budgetary cuts in the state budget. The two-hour strike will begin at 8:00am, at which time schools, kindergartens and daycare centers will remain closed. Traffic signals will not operate properly and garbage collection will come to a halt.
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The ULA head, Shlomo Buchbut, who is also the mayor of Maalot warns �this is just the beginning,� promising harsher sanctions and actions if the government is brazen enough to move ahead with the fiscal cuts being announced in the media.

(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)