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Les enseignants libanais sont dans une longue grève et refusent de noter les résultats des concours. Solution du ministre de l’Éducation : tout le monde a obtenu son diplôme !

Lebanon : Education minister passes all students in bid to undermine the UCC
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The committee of official exams students will today hold a press conference at the headquarters of the Lebanese Democratic Youth Union in the neighborhood of Mar Elias [in Beirut], at 3 pm to explain their position about the certificates.

In Sidon, a number of students distributed a statement urging Education Minister Elias Bou Saab not to give them certificates, and to deploy all efforts for the teachers to obtain their rights so they would perform their duties and grade the exams and issue the results.

The students called upon the Union Coordination Committee to take the current situation in Lebanon into consideration, urging them to grade the exams, in order to maintain the standards of the official diploma.

“We support the demands of our teachers, they are our role models, and we learned from them to make sacrifices for the sake of others,” the statement said.

Ça se faisait pendant la guerre civile libanaise. Mais là, c’est juste un conflit social… (Il n’y a vraiment plus rien du tout qui fonctionne, maintenant dans ce pays.)

Elias Bou Saab est arrivé avec un certain capital de sympathie dans les milieux 8 Mars, mais semble le dilapider à vitesse accélérée.

Lebanese civil servant ends hunger strike amid public indifference
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Dr. #Ali_Berro sits under a tree in #Riad_al-Solh Square during his hungerstrike. (Photo: Haitham Moussawi) Dr. Ali Berro sits under a tree in Riad al-Solh Square during his hungerstrike. (Photo: Haitham Moussawi)

#Agriculture_Ministry employee Dr. Ali Berro ended his hunger strike at the urging of several parties, most notably the Union Coordination Committee (UCC). Berro decided to end his sit-in at Riad al-Solh Square and to rejoin the struggle as part of the #UCC and its planned mobilizations. He said it is hard to make a breakthrough in a country where people are desensitized but added that, “I will find a way. I will continue my battle against injustice and corruption from a different position and through different (...)

#Culture_&_Society #Akram_Chehayeb #Articles #education_ministry #Lebanon

#Lebanon workers union to strike Wednesday over #wage_scale
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Lebanon’s most powerful workers union announced a general strike for Wednesday for all public sector workers over Parliament’s failure to approve a wage hike bill. The Union Coordination Committee (UCC), a coalition of government workers and teachers, also encouraged on Tuesday its supporters to rally outside the Ministry of Education Wednesday. #UCC chief #Hanna_Gharib faulted legislators for using the country’s political paralysis as an excuse to further stall the approval of a wage hike bill. read more

#UCC workers protest outside Lebanese economy ministery
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Members of #Lebanon’s powerful workers’ union protested outside the Ministry of Economy in Beirut Wednesday morning to pressure the government into approving a wage hike bill. The Union Coordination Committee (UCC), which represents a coalition of government employees and teachers, demands “the absolute rights of public sector workers, and a total refusal of any deal at our expense,” union chief #Hanna_Gharib said in a televised speech outside the ministry. read more

Lebanese union chief says no to tax hike
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The leader of #Lebanon's most powerful workers union denounced on Wednesday tax hike proposals as a way to fund a bill that would raise salaries for teachers and public sector workers. #Hanna #Gharib, head of the Union Coordination Committee (UCC), told reporters that legislators must finance the #wage_scale through taxes imposed on the banking sector and high end real estate properties a day ahead of a scheduled vote on the long-delayed bill. read more

#UCC

Lebanese teachers agree to monitor #exams, but not correct them
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Lebanon’s education minister Elias Bou Saab called for a resolution of the wage scale dispute on Wednesday, adding that he would not compel teachers to correct the official exams. The comments followed Bou Saab’s announcement late Tuesday that exams would be postponed from Thursday to Friday, after the Union Coordination Committee (UCC) agreed to have its teachers monitor the exams in a last-minute compromise. read more

#education_ministry #Gharib #Hanna_Gharib #Lebanon #salary_scale #UCC

Teachers protest for wage hikes outside Beirut VAT building
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Teachers and civil servants protested outside the VAT complex in Beirut Wednesday in the latest in a series of sit-ins to demand Parliament pass a wage hike bill. #Hanna_Gharib, head of the Union Coordination Committee (UCC), a coalition of teachers and public sector workers behind the movement for the #wage_scale, said he was hopeful the issue would be resolved when Parliament returns to session on June 10. The #UCC has been threatening to boycott official exams if its demand of a 121 percent wage increase for state employees was not met. read more

#Lebanon

Union Coordination Committee announces week-long escalated mobilization | Al Akhbar English
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The Union Coordination Committee (UCC) has announced a program of escalatory steps it will take, including boycotting official exams and paralyzing the public administration starting on June 7. In the meantime, it is not yet clear whether parliament will be able to strike some sort of deal with the UCC before the ultimatum expires.

Just one week separates us from official exams, and the now-significant possibility that the UCC would boycott them and deny students nationwide the chance to earn their official qualifications, amid general indifference by various parliamentary blocs regarding the rights of teachers and public sector employees.

Union Coordination Committee announces week-long escalated mobilization
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Public sector employees protest in downtown Beirut for higher wages. (Photo: Haitham Moussawi) Public sector employees protest in downtown Beirut for higher wages. (Photo: Haitham Moussawi)

The Union Coordination Committee (UCC) has announced a program of escalatory steps it will take, including boycotting official exams and paralyzing the public administration starting on June 7. In the meantime, it is not yet clear whether parliament will be able to strike some sort of deal with the #UCC before the ultimatum expires.

Faten Elhajj

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#Lebanon #Ali_Hassan_Khalil #Articles #Elias_Bou_Saab #Future_Movement #Ministry_of_Education #Ministry_of_Finance #wage_scale

The ABCs of the grades and salaries scale
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A woman holds a placard saying “The people pay the price for corruption” during a protest for the grade and salaries scale to be passed by the #Lebanese_parliament. (Photo: Haitham Moussawi) A woman holds a placard saying “The people pay the price for corruption” during a protest for the grade and salaries scale to be passed by the Lebanese parliament. (Photo: Haitham Moussawi)

If it goes ahead, the parliament session scheduled for May 27 will theoretically be dedicated to deliberations ahead of passing the proposed wage scale and new tax adjustments. At the same time, the Union Coordination Committee (UCC) plans to hold a sit-in at Riad Solh Square.

Maha Zaraket

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#Economy #Articles #Beirut #George_Adwan #Ibrahim_Kanaan #Lebanese_economy #Lebanon #NSSF #UCC

The UCC’s “day of rage”
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Today a mass demonstration organized by the Union Coordination Committee (UCC) took place in front of the Association of Banks in downtown Beirut, dubbed the “day of rage." Demonstrators from various Lebanese regions marched through the streets, shouting their demands and condemning the amendments introduced by the parliament and its joint committees concerning the wage hike bill.

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Lebanese workers’ union protests for wage hikes
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Members of #Lebanon's most powerful workers’ union protested outside the Ministry of Social Affairs in #Beirut Monday as part of a week-long strike over a stalled wage hike bill. The Union Coordination Committee (UCC), which represents thousands of public sector workers and teachers, has been calling on the government since 2012 to pass a #wage_scale bill that would increase salaries by 121 percent. read more

#Top_News #UCC

Lebanese public sector workers launch week long strike
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Thousands of Lebanese public sector workers began a week long strike Thursday over Parliament’s refusal to pass a wage hike bill. The Union Coordination Committee (UCC), which represents public and private school teachers and government employees, said the strike will be followed by a mass rally next Wednesday. The body is calling on Parliament to pass a wage scale bill that would increase salaries by 121 percent. It decided to strike after a parliamentary committee formed to study the issue recommended that the proposed wage hike bill be watered down substantially. read more

#Lebanon #Top_News #UCC

Tens of thousands march in Beirut for wage hikes
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The Union Coordination Committee (UCC) – a conglomerate of public sector associations and schools – had asked public and private schools and government offices across Lebanon to observe the one-day strike to rally for higher wages.

The UCC is calling on Parliament to pass a bill that would increase the salary scale by 121%, and to fund it without raising taxes on basic goods.

In addition to imposing taxes on bank profits, activists want to tax billionaires who own the luxury seafront properties.

“I don’t see them giving us the pay scale we’re demanding any time soon,” Kassem Mubarak, a teacher at a trade school for electricians, told Al-Akhbar. “But we’re going to keep on protesting to show everyone that we are serious.”

“I didn’t used to protest when they started about two years ago, but now it’s getting more serious,” he added. “There will be more and more protests and they will keep getting bigger.”

Lebanese workers strike over stalled wage bill
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Thousands of public sector workers and teachers went on strike across #Lebanon Wednesday to protest Parliament’s failure to vote on a long-standing bill that would increase their pay. Hundreds rallied outside at Riyad al-Solh square in downtown Beirut, calling on Parliament to take action, one day after the 128-member body returned to session. Lebanon was hit by a series of paralyzing strikes over the last two years after the pro-worker Union Coordination Committee (UCC) mobilized tens of thousands of state employees to demand higher wages. read more

#Top_News #UCC