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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Teachers protest all over the kingdom to protest against the government decision to dissolve the Teachers' Union | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Policy grievances, Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause, Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | National | Jordan | July 20, 2020 |
| Drivers working at the Ministry of Education inaugurate an open-ended strike to demand overarching improvements of their labour condition | 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 | October 18, 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 | December 29, 2019 |
| 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 |