إجتماع للإتحاد العمالي العام اليوم بعد تلويحه بـ"الإضراب" اعتراضا على قرار"تصحيح الأجور"

Strike, and if necessary, bring the government down. Otherwise, you too shut the hell up once and for all. Nobody has any guts anymore! Only loud mouths.

People, now is the time to revolt and turn the table over the heads of these corrupt politicians. Move your butts. Stop being their mules and leading yourselves towards more misery and more pain.

Very fair deal, I think it is too much, as with the economic slump people are loosing their jobs all over the world, no one is asking for a raise. Our economy is interlinked with that of the surrounding countries which are in turmoil. All economic data is negative compared to 2010, where are we ti find the money to pay for salary hikes?

We shouldn't underestimate the power of domestic purchasing power. The more money that local Lebanese citizens have, the more they are able to spend. A further increase might have immediate pain to some industries, but with the right amount of tariffs on foreign imports and workers, this will eventually mean more economic growth based on local consumer spending. Every rise should be equalled with taxes on foriegn competition. No economy can flourish without at least 50% local spending. Nahhas's plan was not too far off. He gave less of an increase to the higher paid workers and more for the lower. Add clever tariff and taxes on foriegn workers and this will mean better self suffient economy... Especially in winter when the tourists leave.

The rich might not be happy immediately but it will all end up improving the economy... bar any war or major deteriation in stability. This would begin a domino effect that would reach the highest paid and keep more lebs here!

@ado.
your comment is way off base.
The more money the unproductive Lebanese have, the more inflation we have, the poorer we will become. Look at the greeks living beyond their means where they are now when they aligned the salaries of their unproductive workforce with the euro zone. compare with the inexpensive polish living within their means.
forget local spending. everybody is already buying cars worth more than their appartments and spending money they dont have for impressing others.
The plan of wage increase is a recipe for future disaster. wait and see inflation results...

a lot of countries are dealing with reducing the public expenses. lebanon should start by that and reduce all the waste of money generously given to the MPs, army officers, the families of these two, reducing the number of MP in the parliament which is so ridiculous compared to the size of lebanon and so on....

but who has the balls to do that? no one because they ALL benefit from it...

so improving the lives of the lebanese people is the least of their concerns!