SCC Threatens to Resume Strikes with Start of School Year

The Syndicate Coordination Committee vowed on Thursday to resume holding strikes and demonstrations to demand the adoption of the new wage scale, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Friday.

It said that it will return to street action to “revive its chronic demand to adopt the wage hike.”

Its sources said that it will resort to “escalation on all levels, including the obstruction of the school year after it had kept its promise to avoid interrupting the previous one.”

“The SCC said that it demonstrated good will, but the authority did not reciprocate so it has decided to once again threaten to obstruct the 2015-26 academic year,” continued the sources.

The SCC, which is a coalition of private and public school teachers and public sector employees, has for years been demanding the adoption of the new wage scale that was approved in 2012 by the cabinet of then Premier Najib Miqati.

Several parliamentary blocs had refused to approve the draft-law over fears that it would have devastating effects on the economy.