The Jordan Labor Watch issued a statement expressing concern over the administrative measures taken by the government against striking teachers. The statement explained that it is the right of the Teachers' Union to observe a strike aimed at improving working conditions and that the restrictions imposed on the right to strike at the level of the civil service regime are opposed to Jordan's Constitution in Articles 15, 16 and 128, which guarantees the right to strike, peaceful assembly and freedom of expression.
The communiqué explained that these restrictions also oppose the international conventions ratified by Jordan and especially those relating to civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, in force in Jordan since 2006. The Jordan Observatory of Labor recalled that 'no signatory party to the convention has the right to use national law to violate the said convention' and that the Jordanian judiciary has repeatedly issued verdicts stipulating that the conventions are superior to national laws.
Moreover, the statement explained that the sanctions administrations, the changes and the replacement of teachers strikers are totally opposed to the convention of the International Labor Organization (ILO) number 98 of the year 1949 bearing on the right to the organization and collective bargaining; an agreement ratified by Jordan in 1962.
The Jordan Labor Watch has called on the government to stop its unconstitutional practices and against Jordan's international labor standards and international commitments.
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