SCC Holds Strike Same Day as Parliament Bureau Meeting to Demand New Wage Scale
The Syndicate Coordination Committee announced that it will hold a general strike next week on the same day that the parliament bureau is set to convene to tackle the agenda of an upcoming legislative session.
A member of the committee explained to al-Joumhouria newspaper on Thursday that it chose the same day to “pressure the bureau to include the new wage scale draft law as the first article of the legislative session.”
“The wage hike should be the first article of the agenda,” he stressed.
The bureau is scheduled to convene on Tuesday, while media reports predicted that the legislative session will be held in November.
The SCC warned that it will take “the greatest forms of escalation should the session be held and should the parliament bureau fail to put the wage hike at the top of its agenda.”
This escalation includes holding an open-ended strike at administrations and schools, said the SCC member.
The committee, which is a coalition of private and public school teachers and public sector employees, has staged numerous strikes in recent years to demand the adoption of the new wage scale.
The salary hike has been at the center of controversy since it was approved by the government of ex-Prime Minister Najib Miqati in 2012. Several parliamentary blocs had refused to approve the draft-law over fears that it would have devastating effects on the economy.
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