Articles from Lebanon
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 May 2014 Lebanon: No deal in Parliament on salary scale bill
Lebanon’s Parliament has failed to pass a public sector salary scale bill, which would have seen an overall maximum salary increase of $1.4 billion.
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Trade union rights are human rights 17 April 2014 Lebanon: strike follows Government failure to decide educators’ salary increase
The Union Coordination Committee (UCC) comprising Lebanon’s four EI national affiliates – the Ligue des professeurs de l’enseignement secondaire public du Liban (LPESPL), the Teachers Syndicate of Lebanon (TSL), the Comité des enseignants techniques officiels (CETO), and the Public Primary Schools Teachers League in Lebanon (PPSTLL) - along with other...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 October 2013 Lebanon: Providing education to refugee children
“Lebanese educators are doing a splendid job of accommodating the tens of thousands Syrian refugee children who have entered their class rooms in the past two years.” EI General Secretary, Fred van Leeuwen, conveyed this message to the Education Minister of Lebanon, Mr. Hassan Diab, and the leaders of the...
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Standards and working conditions 25 February 2013 Lebanon: Delay in new wage scale prompts open-ended strike
EI has sent a solidarity letter supporting its national affiliates, the Teachers’ Syndicate of Lebanon (TSL),) the Ligue des professeurs de l’enseignement public du Liban (LPESPL), and the League of Technical and Vocational Teachers (CETO). It is asking its affiliates to write to the Lebanese Government, to push for the...
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Standards and working conditions 14 December 2012 Lebanon: Government must refer new public sector salary scale for approval to Parliament
On 12 December, hundreds of teachers and public sector employees took to the streets, in a march organised by the Union Coordination Committee(UCC) to protest against the governmental failure to refer a new public sector salary scale for approval to the Parliament. They demanded a salary increase.
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Trade union rights are human rights 9 November 2012 Arab Union Leaders condemn human and trade union rights abuses
Leaders of teachers’ organisations in the Arab region are outraged by the recent verdict of a Bahraini appeal court in which it sentenced the President of the Bahraini Teachers Association (BTA), Mahdi Abu Deeb, to 5 years imprisonment for taking part in national demonstrations in 2011. The Vice President of...
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Standards and working conditions 7 November 2012 Historic first Arab Countries Conference held in Beirut
The inaugural Conference of Education International’s new Arab Countries Cross-Regional Structure was held this week in the Monroe Hotel in Beirut, Lebanon. The Conference was attended by 44 representatives of 26 EI member organisations from Arab Countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 October 2012 Lebanon: educators join strike with public sector
EI national affiliates, the Ligue des professeurs de l’enseignement secondaire public du Liban (LPESPL), the Teachers’ Syndicate of Lebanon (TSL), and the League of Public Technical and Vocational Teachers (CETO), were joined by the public sector in their strike on 10 October. Teachers' unions and public sector employees in Lebanon...
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Trade union rights are human rights 5 July 2012 Lebanon: teachers demand first salary increase in 10 years
EI has expressed its support for a salary increase demanded by the Teachers’ Coordination Committee in Lebanon. After an agreement was passed on an improved salary scale for workers in the private sector in February, the Committee carried out strike and protest actions to force the government to also enter...
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Union renewal and development 26 January 2012 Cross-Regional Conference for EI affiliates in Arabic-speaking countriesCross-Regional Conference for EI affiliates in Arabic-speaking countries
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Union growth 20 December 2011 Lebanon: teacher unions strike over insulting wage rise
Tens of thousands of teachers including EI’s affiliates the Syndicate of Private School Teachers (TSL) and the League of Public Secondary Teachers (LPESPL), went on strike across Lebanon on December 15. They are threatening to widen the action if the government fails to improve its planned wage increase.
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Standards and working conditions 19 October 2011 Lebanon: Teachers demand minimum wage increase
The Teacher Unions’ Coordination Committee of Lebanon, which includes the EI affiliates: Teachers Syndicate in Lebanon (TSL) and League of Public Secondary School teachers in Lebanon (LPESPL), have issued a joint statement confirming a national strike and sit-in outside the Council of Ministers’ offices on 19 October to oppose the...
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Standards and working conditions 7 April 2010 Lebanon: Teachers demand 12 years of allowance arrears
In a recent press conference on 30 Mar called by the Ligue des professeurs de l'enseignement secondaire public du Liban (LPESPL), teachers demand to be paid 12 consecutive years of allowance arrears.
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Standards and working conditions 8 March 2010 Lebanon: teachers held strike of unprecedented scale to demand salary improvement
Lebanese teachers have so far received no response from the authorities concerning their demand of 24 Feb. Thousands of teachers from public secondary schools and vocational institutes took part in an industrial action that day, which was unprecedented in size and turnout.
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Union renewal and development 27 February 2009 Lebanon: LPESPL, driving force against cuts in health care provision for teachers and state employees
On 1 January 2009 the contract between the Lebanese government and private hospitals to provide medical services to teachers and state employees expired. As of this date private hospitals refused to provide medical treatment to their previous patients even in crucial cases where immediate help was needed, i.e. kidney dialysis...
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Union renewal and development 16 October 2008 Workshop strengthens Lebanese unions under the MENA programme
Within the framework of EI's new Middle East and North Africa (MENA) programme, EI organized two training workshops with EI members in Lebanon, the League of Secondary Public School Teachers in Lebanon (LPESPL) and the Teachers’ Syndicate in Lebanon (TSL).
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Standards and working conditions 4 April 2008 Education International supports Lebanese teachers’ struggle for fair salary increase
Education International is strongly supporting the teachers of Lebanon in their strike action to back legitimate demands for a fair salary that reflects the high increase in the cost of living.
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Trade union rights are human rights 3 October 2006 Lebanese teachers suffered heavy losses in summer of war
Lebanese teachers’ unions estimate that 25 teachers were among the approximately 1,000 civilians killed in this summer’s attacks by Israeli forces. About 50 schools were completely destroyed and 500 more were severely damaged.
Lebanese teachers suffered heavy losses in summer of war