Collective Action
Public hospital employees start open-ended strike
Employees of Lebanon’s public hospitals began an open-ended strike to protest the delayed implementation of the new salary scale.
Hundreds of protesters gathered around Beirut’s Riad al-Solh Square, calling on government officials to work to apply the salary scale to their paychecks as soon as possible.
“How are they going to preserve your rights?” one activist asked, in a direct address to those employees working “for humanitarian causes.”
Last month, employees of the Sidon Governmental Hospital held a strike demanding that the salary scale, which was passed in June 2017, be implemented. Worker strikes on this issue routinely close the hospital’s clinics, but provisions are made to keep the emergency room open.
Date:
March 26, 2018
Actors/ Mobilising structures:
Workers group (inc.union, syndicate, etc.)
Mode of Action:
Strike
Objective:
Reform (advocating for limited change in political, socio-economic etc.)
Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA:
Access to socio-eco rights
Spatial characteristics:
Location on the Lebanese territory
Frequency:
Continuous
State response:
Bargaining