The association issued a statement in which it stated: “Since the beginning of the war, we have made calls to the Minister of Education, Rima Karami, to take urgent measures to protect teachers from extreme poverty, either by activating a government decree issued during a previous living crisis granting each teacher lump-sum social assistance, or by relying on the Complete Contract Law No. 325, which was issued in 2021 during the Corona crisis after a long struggle on our part as contract teachers in basic education, which guarantees the right of the contract teacher to obtain his full contract dues in the event of closure. Forced schools.
The statement added: “But we did not receive any reply or response from the Minister of Education, Dr. Rima Karami, and all the statements she was issuing focused on additional demands related to her plan to continue education in schools, as if teachers were mere machines for executing orders, and that the ministry cared more about inanimate objects than it cared about humans.”
The statement concluded by saying: “We turn to every oppressed teacher who feels resentment and injustice, to show him the truth about those who offer poison. Poison is what is offered to kill people, and an unjust decision of this magnitude is more deadly than poison for every contract teacher who suffers hardship under the sounds of missiles and among the rubble to implement the plan of the Minister of Education for $8.2, Balash. If you do not want your dignity, right, and status to be without a price, then you must raise your voice in their face, and you must be At the forefront of the confrontation to deter this tyranny, undo their sin, and issue a quick decision to improve wages based on the previously approved full contract law and the previous government decree regarding the payment of social assistance to primary contractors, with the same logic that the Minister of Education relied on when issuing the decision to raise the wages of Lebanese University professors.”
