In a statement issued after a meeting at the headquarters of the Private School Teachers' Union, the Union Coordinating Committee estimated that teachers, civil servants and retirees continue to be humiliated at the beginning of each month to receive their salaries and pensions, while private school teachers are subjected to unexplained salary deductions and others are outright deprived of their salaries. The communiqué recalled that these practices are carried out while Lebanon is going through a major economic crisis where the collapse of the currency is increasing social and financial tensions.
In this context, the Trade Union Coordination Committee warned the government against the lifting of subsidies and recalled that each postponement of the announcement of the new government formation worsens the crisis and delays the implementation of reforms needed to rescue the national economy.
In the same press release, the organization called for an end to the problem of contract workers in all sectors of education, to unblock their salaries, to register the contracts of replacements with the Ministry of National Education in order to guarantee their rights and to put in place a clear strategy to make them permanent and fill vacancies in the official academic and professional education system.
The Trade Union Coordinating Committee announced a general strike in public and private schools and high schools, teachers' institutes and guidance centers (including distance learning courses) for December 17, 2020. The same communiqué called on the councils of delegates to meet in the different governorates to agree on the next steps of the protest.
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