The Workers' Committee in Haifa threatens to turn to legal courts if the approved budget is not transferred to the organization
In March 2022, a budget of NIS 1,946,000 was approved for the workers' organization in the Haifa municipality, but the mayor refuses to sign the payment order, which causes great damage to the organization and prevents it from even ordering a holiday gift for the employees.
In a letter sent yesterday (Monday 25/7/22) to the legal advisor of the Municipality of Haifa, Yamit Klein, through Mordechai Levin - law firm, it is stated that within the budget approved by the city council - NIS 1,946,000 was approved, which was intended for the workers' organization, but the organization learned that When the payment order was brought to the mayor's signature, she refused to sign it, while avoiding paying the workers' organization the organization's budget as stipulated in the Council's decision as part of the approval of the budget.
It is also written that the mayor "chooses to trample on the decisions of the city council with a rough foot and to avoid making a payment that was approved religiously and legally, while ignoring the many damages the mayor is causing with this conduct. Thus, the future of the workers' organization will purchase a holiday gift for Rosh Hashanah for thousands of municipal employees, as every year per year, however, delaying the transfer of funds by the mayor causes great damage to the organization and prevents the ability to order the goods for the holiday on time, so that they can be distributed to the employees near the holiday."
Attorney Levin also writes: "The mayor is abusing her authority to sign the payment order, an authority which is considered a formal authority only and without any real consideration given the fact that the city council approved the making of this payment already in March 2022 as part of the approval of the regular budget for 2022 and everything In order to settle accounts with the workers' organization due to the announcement of the labor dispute these days."
"The mayor's conduct is driven by extraneous and improper considerations, of pure vindictiveness in the workers' organization and its head, considerations that go beyond the realm of reasonableness and have no place in the level of relations between the municipality and the workers' organization, especially when the funds were legally approved and now the mayor is making a case for herself when she delays without authority Complete the transfer of the funds to the workers' organization. Therefore, the mayor is required to order the transfer of the funds immediately, while preventing additional damages to the workers' organization that were caused as a result of delaying the transfer of the funds until this day, when the workers' organization is currently required to order the vouchers for the holiday, like every year per year".
In conclusion, Attorney Levin writes: "As long as the mayor chooses not to do so, the representative of the workers' committee will be forced to act by all the legal means available to him, including going to legal courts and even the mayor's personal liability for damages to the workers' organization, as a result of the mayor's illegal actions and which are being done with complete lack of authority".
The full letter:
The chairman of the Finance Committee, Sofi Nakash, said:
The mayor, as always, does not understand what powers are in her hands. The city council approved the 2022 budget, and the mayor herself even welcomed it in a post she published. As soon as the city council approves - only the city council can cancel and a ruling was even made on the matter about six months ago when the mayor tried to prevent transportation from the children of Moriah-Barkai school. It's a shame that the mayor drags the municipality to the courts and forces it to defend itself against petitions.
City council member and member of the finance committee Eli Ben Dayan gave Lahi Pa:
Once again the mayor continues to behave with bullying and disrespect towards those who care and work every day for the benefit of the city. After there isn't a person she hasn't quarreled with, the mayor once again has a fight, this time with the workers' organization whose entire role is to provide services to the city's residents. The failure of the mayor's signature and the behavior of "I and nothing else" is a direct continuation of its colossal failure in the management of the city and the basic relationship that the mayor - the one who believes in the municipal system - should have with its employees. Unfortunately, this is not the only signature that the mayor is delaying in the budget and there are many more signatures on her desk that have been budgeted for and are awaiting approval, and for reasons that are kept only with her, the funds do not go to the purpose that was defined for them. I hereby call on the mayor to stop the ongoing failure and not to bring the municipal employees into the existing political struggles and to immediately sign the transfer of the committee's budget which is entirely for the benefit of the municipal employees.
Member of the city council and member of the Finance Committee Yoav Ramati sent a message to Hai Pa:
In my opinion, the mayor grossly violates the council's decision on many issues and I, who have already submitted a petition, will submit one more.
It is excellent to do the beginning of the city, in war as in war.
Will there be a strike? You won't get a salary either.
If there is no flour, there is no Torah. It is known that the city council of employees does not cooperate with the mayor and also puts sticks in the wheels. That is why payments to him are being delayed. The time has come for employee-employer relations in the municipality to return to sanity.
What is happening in the Haifa municipality is shocking, it looks like a factory for the workers' economy. The residents are redundant and are used only for the purpose of payments, taxes and fines.
I tried to contact the municipality's hotline and received bogus answers with the full signature of employees in various departments.
This is only a short time after the critic's publications.
In my opinion, it is appropriate to create a replacement body and send all the businessmen home.
A workers' organization that only cares about benefits for its employees and themselves, instead of the benefit of the city's residents.
When the budget was approved on March 22, you were not in a labor dispute with the mayor. If success - then a bilateral conflict.
You are also not a partner in the streamlining of the personnel situation in the municipality, almost the entire budget of which is intended for payments to employees and graduates of the municipality.
The council members commenting in the article are required first and foremost for public integrity and loyalty to the residents of the city!! Nuff said.
Finally, but long overdue, the mayor may have begun the promised process of cleaning the stables.
An expensive labor organization (very!!), as you can see, you do not get much sympathy from the public, to say the least. So it is recommended that you recalculate the road, for the benefit of the residents and not only for your personal benefit.
At the exact same meeting, the manpower standards for the municipality's employees were also approved. At the request of the workers' organization, it is necessary to act exactly according to this approval, and then the payments to the redundant workers above the standard will be saved. These payments can be transferred to the workers' organization.
Limor Amar when will I receive the money that the municipality owed me.
Let them tell how they raised the salary for the employees above what was acceptable two years ago. They added NIS 150 for each employee.
It's fine for you to do what you want with our property tax money, which is only getting more expensive year by year.
Employees who earn NIS 30 per month need a gift for the holidays? Do they need coupons to buy clothes or food for themselves?
Tell me where else you will go with the scraps. Donate these 2 million shekels to the minimum wage workers in cleaning and maintenance
Around you that do not have municipal conditions.
So they will not receive a set of pots and pans from Soltam Redad for 1,500 NIS for the holiday
And no word on the fact that Sophie Naksh is suing the Haifa municipality and demanding compensation for herself?
Keep believing that this balloon woman protects you...
What nonsense, apparently these thugs are threatening her themselves, they remind me of the mobster port workers who do whatever they want, and Sophie knocks? She better be quiet