Collective Action
Teachers from French system schools demonstrate outside the French Secular Mission to demand a pay raise
More than a hundred teachers from the Grand Lycée Franco-Libanais de Beyrouth, the Lycée Franco-Libanais de Verdun and the Lycée Franco-Libanais de Nahr Ibrahim protested on Monday in front of the French Secular Mission (MLF) and Regional Directorate of the Real Estate and Digital Financial Administration (DRAFIN) in Beirut, to demand an increase in their salaries. The teachers said that their salaries, which are paid by the Mission, remain pegged at the official rate of LL1,500 to the US dollar. These teachers have been waiting for sustainable solutions that will allow them “to live with dignity,” continued the statement. While many businesses, corporations and schools in Lebanon have adopted salary improvements, the MLF, through DRAFIN, has not. The teachers called on the MLF and DRAFIN to find “equitable and lasting solutions to curb the exodus of Lebanese teachers.”