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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A sit-in organized by a campaign called 'Stand with Teachers' (قم مع المعلم) in front of the Ministry of Education demanded that schools transfer teachers' salaries via banks. | Workers group: Union / Syndicate | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | Procedural action | Ministry of Education | Jordan | October 24, 2022 |
| Private sector teachers stage a sit-in to demand their labor rights. | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Ministry of Education | Jordan | October 24, 2022 |
| Teachers fulfiling additional educational hours intend to escalate their protest measures, either by carrying out a strike or a sit-in in front of the Ministry of Education, in protest against what they described as "a diminution of their employment right | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Ministry of Education | Jordan | November 14, 2022 |
| Employees of the Jordanian-Syrian Land Transport Company, which was established on the basis of parity between the Jordanian and Syrian governments, stage a sit-in in front of the Ministry of Finance to demand the payment of their suspended salaries. | Workers group: Other | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Ministry of Finance | Jordan | November 27, 2022 |
| Hundreds of teachers hold a march in Muwaqqar towards the Teachers' Syndicate local branch to reiterate their demands for salary raises | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | March | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Muwaqqar | Jordan | September 18, 2019 |
| School teachers stage solidarity demonstration on a national scale to protest against the government dissolution of the Teachers’ Union | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Policy grievances, Injustice / Perceived injustice | Demonstration | Support of a cause, Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | National | Jordan | September 28, 2020 |
| Several Jordanian workers and unions join the call for a day of solidarity strike launched by Palestinian activists | Campaign | Regional / Political grievances | Strike / Strike announcement | Support of a cause | N/A | National | Jordan | May 18, 2021 |
| Second and third category employees at the Ministry of Agriculture inaugurate an open-ended strike to obtain better labor conditions, | 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 | National | Jordan | December 16, 2019 |
| Third category employees of the Ministry of Education go on strike to obtain better labor conditions | 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 | National | Jordan | November 27, 2019 |
| UNRWA employees stage sit-ins across the Kingdom to protest the decision of the agency to deduct part of their wages | Workers group: Union / Syndicate | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | National | Jordan | November 17, 2020 |