BEIRUT: The Union Coordination Committee Wednesday urged lawmakers to assume their responsibilities and endorse the salary scale draft law at the June 10 Parliament session.
“Do not play with us, assume your responsibilities and attend the June 10 session to endorse the salary scale draft law,” Mahmoud Haidar, a spokesperson from the UCC, said speaking during a sit-in outside the VAT building in Beirut.
The sit-in comes after Education Minister Elias Bou Saab announced Monday that he was postponing official exams for Grade 9 and Grade 12 students in a bid to save the official exams from the risk of boycott.
Teachers have threatened to boycott the official exams if the long-stalled wage hike is not endorsed during Parliament’s session on June 10.
The minister said Brevet exams would be postponed from June 7 to June 12 while Baccalaureate exams would be postponed from June 12 to June 16 and June 22 to June 27.
UCC head Hanna Gharib said the committee would meet at 3 p.m. to look into the minister’s decision and decide their next step.
Gharib rejected criticism that the UCC was ignoring students’ interests and blamed the possible failure to hold the official exams on lawmakers.
“Let June 10 be the end of the salary scale series, let this day be a day for endorsing the rights of all the public sector employees,” Gharib said.
“We are focusing on the June 10 day after the official exams got postponed so that we do not get dragged into spoiling the exams,” he said. “Do not accuse us of being careless over the students’ fate; no one is keener on the interests of students than us... go ahead and take action on June 10 instead, endorse the salary scale."
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