Amidst a tense atmosphere in the educational sector and escalating protests within official educational institutions, the Secondary School Teachers League is preparing to announce a comprehensive strike in official secondary schools in the coming days. This strike comes in protest against the difficult living conditions faced by teachers and the continued disregard for fair demands that represent the minimum to ensure their steadfastness. This move is expected to significantly affect the workflow in official schools and enjoys broad support from various parties involved in the educational process.
In this context, the Contract Teachers Movement announced its full support for the Secondary School Teachers League in the decision of the impending strike and called on all contractors to fully comply with it.
In a statement to , the coordinator of the movement, Hamza Mansour, confirmed that “the demands put forward today are not factional or temporary, but express a common pain between owners and contractors, and an urgent need to save the official sector before it reaches the stage of complete collapse.”
Mansour explained that the main demands revolve around increasing salaries, raising the hourly wage, and including these increases in the base salary and the base wage, considering that “any increase outside this framework remains patchwork attempts that do not save a teacher or restore vitality to the official sector.”
He added that the movement also adheres to its chronic demand for the disbursement of contractors’ dues monthly and regularly “from now on, without any delay or procrastination.” He stressed the need to disburse the dues for the month of November with transportation allowance before the end of December and before the holiday vacation, because “contractors are unable to wait any longer, and every day of delay means striking their ability to reach their schools and continue teaching.”
Mansour called on the Ministry of Education and the concerned authorities to deal seriously with the teachers’ demands before the official sector loses what remains of its stability.
He concluded by saying that the continuation of the policy of procrastination will push professors to more severe steps, holding the concerned ministries responsible for any upcoming educational shake-up, because “the official sector can no longer tolerate more neglect and procrastination.”
