A guide to Lebanon’s street protests | Al Akhbar English
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Demands: The UCC wants salaries to increase by 121% — more than double their current salaries — to match the pay hikes promised to public university professors. It would be the first wage scale increase since a 2011 bill raised the country’s monthly minimum wage from $333 to $467. That bill also increased salaries for all workers in the country earning up to $1,200.
The UCC also calls for the pay increase to be implemented immediately, rejecting proposals by business officials and their political allies to introduce wage hikes in increments over a period of three years. Moreover, the union has warned parliament against increasing taxes on necessities to pay for the wage scale so as to not overburden the country’s poor.