Collective Action

 Full-time professors at Lebanese University are refusing to grade student exams as they’re on strike — protesting poor working conditions, the deterioration of their salaries, which are now worth about $150, and the lack of services provided by the university. The head of the executive board of the Association of Full-time Professors at Lebanese University, Amer Halawani, announced an open strike and that no “exams or academic work will be held.” A member of the association who wished to remain anonymous told L’Orient Today that the issue will only be resolved if both professors’ demands concerning salaries and transportation benefits are addressed.

 Full-time professors at the state-owned Lebanese University on September 9 announced that they will continue their open strike that started in July and said that they "are not willing to discuss any matter until the transfer of all delayed payment dues." In a statement, the instructors also said that "in case there was no clear strategy to the resumption of in-person teaching and a modification to the salaries of the professors which fits the current situation, let everyone know that there will be no [new] university year and no ending of this year."