Collective Action

Teachers across Lebanon skipped school to protest recent heavy-handed measures taken against colleagues when they were protesting a lack of government action on wage stagnation and working conditions. The “one-day warning strike” was held to demonstrate against the treatment of teachers who protested Thursday at Baabda Palace, spokesperson for the Association of Secondary School Teachers Nazih al-Jibawi said at news conference at the association’s UNESCO offices.

Five teachers were arrested and several others injured when security forces dispersed the hundreds-strong crowd that had gathered outside the Cabinet session and blocked roads leading to the presidential palace.

They were protesting the fact that education issues had again been left off the Cabinet’s agenda.