Lebanon teachers protest against wage increase

October 19, 2011 ⋅ 1:09 pm ⋅ Post a comment

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Public and private school teachers went on strike and protested on Wednesday morning in front of the Grand Serail , National News Agency reported.

Mohammad Kassem, a member of the Syndicate Coordination Committee , said that a delegation of the protesters will visit Prime Minister Najib Mikati to submit their demands and voice “condemnation of the wage increase.”

Hanna Gharib, the head of Secondary Teachers Associations said earlier that the strike is a “reaction to the Cabinet’s decision which is an insult to our dignity,” voicing confidence that it would be successful. “We will show them that we are united.”

Under a deal reached by the government and the General Labor Confederation last week, the minimum wage was raised to LL700,000 from LL500,000, while the wages of those earning less than LL1 million were raised by LL200,000 and wages of those earning between LL1 million and LL1.8 million were raised LL300,000.

Under this deal experienced teachers and supervisors earning in excess of 1.8 million LL will be earning less than their subordinates .

The economic committees voiced their reservations over the cabinet’s decision and the General Workers Union suspended the strike that was planned for October 12.

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Anonymous

Please define ‘subordinate’.
Anonymous

I’m for moderate wage increases but be careful of hyper inflation that will result from these 20% – 30% wage increases. I would demand lowering taxes (VAT) before demanding wage increases. The big beneficiaries are the outside investors not the Lebanese workers. Investors that live outside the country will benefit from inflation as their investment will go up in value while they are not paying the inflated living expenses.

Anonymous

Seems like most Lebanese workers are not working anyway. Won’t change much overall.
But what does ‘subordinate’ in any given trade’s pay levels really mean here?

Anonymous

I think they should cut down these teachers salaries they’re all useless and mostly aounist and Hezbollah lol.

Anonymous

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Anonymous

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Anonymous

The cloud Libnan ?? Future?
Can you imagine the screaming and whining on the streets – the angst and the heart attacks when the cloud disappears like Blackberry texting did for a few days ??? HAhahhahaaaaaaa … Leb-net will cause the cannons to come out to shoot down clouds … HAHAHAHAhhaaaaa
Last place I’ll ever put ANYTHING is into a cloud.

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