Mapping of Collective Actions in Jordan
Publication Date: 2019
The mapping of collective actions in Jordan tracks mobilisations by groups of people whose goal is to achieve a common objective.
Each mapped collective action is based on a typology devised by the Centre for Social Sciences Research and Action.
The objective of this database is to explore collective actions by providing accurate data and relevant information on mobilisations happening in the country.
Explore the interactive charts below the table.
Data collection for this mapping is done by the CeSSRA team.
Information sources: Media reports, NGO reports, aid actors reports, as well as first-hand data collected by the CeSSRA team.
Period covered by data collection: September 1st, 2019 - till present.
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| Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response |
Location |
Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smart application drivers who work for Careem start an open-ended strike nationwide to protest the company's decision to decrease the price of the trips by 20% | Workers group: Self-employed | Corporate grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Jordan | June 19, 2022 | |
| Hundreds of Talabat delivery workers strike nationwide to protest working conditions | Workers group: Other | Corporate grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Jordan | August 31, 2022 | |
| Dozens of engineers employed at the Ministry of the Education stage a sit-in in various localities of the Kingdom demanding equal labor treatment with the rest of ministerial employees | Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Jordan | September 26, 2018 | |
| Taxi drivers, shared taxi drivers and bus and minibus drivers hold a two-hour strike nationwide to protest the increase in fuel prices | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Other | Policy grievances | Strike / Strike announcement | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Jordan | June 16, 2022 | |
| Engineers and agronomists working for the Ministry of Education inaugurate an open-ended strike to demand equal labor treatment with the rest of ministerial employees | Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Jordan | December 3, 2018 | |
| The Independent Federation of Trade Unions of Municipality Workers of Jordan inaugurates an open-ended strike for municipality workers to obtain better working conditions | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | Bargaining | Jordan | October 8, 2018 | |
| The campaign “Stand up with the teacher” launches an online campaign to denounce how private schools do not always pay their teachers through bank accounts or electronic wallets | Campaign | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Online campaign | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Jordan | April 12, 2022 | |
| The Jordanian Teachers' Association organizes a nationwide solidarity march with the union in defiance of the wave of preemptive arrests | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Policy grievances, Injustice / Perceived injustice | March | Support of a cause, Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | Repression | Jordan | June 30, 2021 | |
| Teachers protest on a national scale against the new career grid purposed by the Ministry of Education, | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Policy grievances | Demonstration, Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Jordan | April 8, 2019 | |
| Over 1000 Careem drivers inaugurate an open-ended strike to protest against the rise in the commission rates | Workers group: Self-employed | Corporate grievances | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Jordan | July 13, 2021 |