Schooling crippled in Lebanon as strike action takes hold

Strikes in Lebanon is severely disrupting education establishment as private and public sector workers take industrial action over a long-debated government pay increase for teachers.

An open-ended public sector strike [2] over wages crippled nearly all private schools across Lebanon for the first time Tuesday as the work stoppage by civil servants entered its second week. [3]

The majority of private schools in Beirut [4] and other parts of the country were shut Tuesday.

Lebanon’s Catholic schools decided Monday to close in light of threats by various unions should they open.

Butros Azar, the secretary-general of Catholic schools, denied Tuesday that the closure was in solidarity with the strike called for by the Union Coordination Committee.

Strike action is crippling schools in Lebanon