Collective Action
Teachers protest outside Education Ministry
A group of contract school teachers held a protest outside the Education Ministry, demanding that they be given long-term contracts and be formally employed by their places of work.
Local media reported that a delegation of the protesters met with Education Minister Marwan Hamadeh, while those remaining outside, in Beirut’s Unesco area, blocked a nearby road as part of the demonstration.
One protester told reporters at the scene that the call to be installed as permanent workers should not be seen as a request for charity from the teachers.
“The [charity] is [for] those in government who get paid and do nothing, not those that [teach] in the classrooms,” the man said.
The teachers were joined by some professors working on a contract basis at the Lebanese University.