#gharib

Anti-worker MPs boycott #Lebanon #wage_scale session, again
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/anti-worker-mps-boycott-lebanon-wage-scale-session-again

Lebanon’s most powerful workers union on Thursday vowed to keep up with strikes and street protests after Parliament failed to convene a session to discuss a wage hike bill. In a repeat of last week’s postponed parliamentary session, legislators affiliated with the anti-worker March 14 alliance boycotted a session over their opposition to a bill that would increase poverty-level salaries of teachers and state employees. read more

#Gharib #UCC

Lebanese union chief says no to tax hike
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanese-union-chief-says-no-tax-hike

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
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanese-teachers-agree-monitor-exams-not-correct-them

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