Electricity company workers suspend strike. UJ Hospital nurses to continue work stoppage. Gendarmerie use tear gas to disperse Maan protesters. AMMAN — Gendarmerie forces used tear gas to disperse a group of protesters who have been holding a sit-in for the past four months to demand jobs in Maan Governorate, 220 kilometres south of Amman, an official source said on Sunday. “The protesters were cleared on the orders of the governor of Maan when things went out of control. We had to use tear gas to disperse people,” Gendarmerie Department Spokesperson Lt.
Col. Ahmad Abu Hammad told The Jordan Times. Maan Governor Abdul Kareem Rawajfeh, however, said he had not asked anyone to disperse the protesters. “I was in Amman for a meeting at the [interior] ministry, but I heard they blocked the roads. This is a major road that other people use,” he told The Jordan Times.
Rashed Khattab, spokesperson for the group of protesters known as “the unemployed”, said they were sitting “peacefully” in their usual tent near Aqaba Square (also known as Arar Square) on road to the phosphate mines, when they were “attacked” by the Gendarmerie. إضراب أصحاب حافلات يوقف حركة النقل على خطوط الطفيلة باتجاه العاصمة. الطفيلة - الدستور - سمير مرايات توقفت حركة النقل العام على خطوط الطفيلة باتجاه العاصمة عمان امس جراء توقف أصحاب شركات النقل والسائقون احتجاجا على تعديات الباصات الداخلية والمركبات الخاصة على خط عمان الطفيلة والعكس.
وصعد أصحاب شركات النقل من احتجاجهم برفضهم تشغيل وتحريك باصاتهم وحافلاتهم لنقل جموع الركاب لعمان،فيما شهد مجمع السفريات الخارجية أزمة ركاب بانتظار وسائط نقل تقلهم لعمان. وعبر مواطنون عن استيائهم من توقف حركة النقل لعمان وتأخرهم مع بداية الأسبوع الحالي عن دوامهم الرسمي في المؤسسات العامة والخاصة،مطالبين الجهات المعنية بإيجاد حل جذري لهذه المشكلة المتكررة شهريا حيث إضراب المشغلين لهذه الخطوط وما يتبعه من الإضرار في عملهم ومصالحهم وتأخرهم عن انجاز معاملاتهم في عمان ، كما هو حال الطلبة الذين تأخروا عن محاضراتهم سواء في جامعة الطفيلة التقنية أو الجامعات الرسمية والخاصة في عمان . ولفت الى دور الهيئة في التنسيق والتعاون لحل هذه المشكلة مع توزيع نشرات توعوية على المواطنين تشير الى مخالفات نقل الركاب عبر باصات الكيا وضياع حقوقهم القانونية في حال الحوادث. DoS employees continue strike. Aqaba water workers suspend strike. موظفو مركز الكرك الايوائي يواصلون اعتصامهم.
الكرك - الدستور - صالح الفراية واصل موظفو مركز الكرك الايوائي في الكرك اعتصامهم لليوم الرابع على التوالي احتجاجا على ماوصفوه بتجاهل وزارة التنمية الاجتماعية لمطالبهم وعدم انصافهم ماديا ومعنويا في مشروع الهيكلة السابق ، رغم زيارة أمين عام وزارة التنمية لهم يوم أمس الاول الا ان أي شيء لم يتحقق لهؤلاء العاملين رغم الوعود الكثيرة التي تلقوها من المسؤولين ، معلنين اخلاء مسؤوليتهم عن أي ضرر يحدث داخل المركز اثناء الاعتصام ، مشددين على اهمية توفير الحماية والامن الوظيفي لهم وللمنتفعين لتحقيق الرؤى الملكية في النهوض بمستوى العمل في مراكز الرعاية والتأهيل وتحقيق الخدمة النموذجية لمستحقيها، مشيرا الى انه سيتم نقل مقر الاعتصام من موقعه الحالي الى الشارع الرئيسي الواقع على طريق الربة -الكرك - منشية ابو حمور .
Labor Watch. Labour protests up 12% in first 9 months — study. AMMAN — Over the past nine months, local labourers staged a total of 691 protests and work stoppages, a 12.8 per cent increase from 610 in the same period last year, according to a study released on Saturday. Conducted by the Phenix Centre for Economic and Informatics Studies (PCEIS) in cooperation with the German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung office in Amman, the study indicated that the protesters mostly called for higher salaries and improved living conditions, adding that 47.3 per cent of the protests were held by public sector employees, 45.4 by private sector workers and 7.3 per cent by unemployed citizens. “Basically, 40.8 per cent of the protests called for higher salaries against 20.7 per cent that called for better work conditions and health insurance services,” the report said.
Noting that 86.7 per cent of the protests were staged by workers who are not included in labour unions, the study recommended establishing associations to defend their rights. Prime minister visits online publishers’ sit-in. Engineers association staff protest over terminations. By Khaled Neimat | Nov 14, 2012 | 00:02 Jordan Engineers Association employees protest outside the Professional Associations Complex on Tuesday (JT photo) AMMAN — Dozens of employees working at the Jordan Engineers Association (JEA) on Tuesday staged a sit-in at the entrance of the Professional Associations Complex, protesting against a decision by the JEA council to terminate the contracts of 13 of their colleagues.
They accused the JEA council of “double standards” in dealing with the association staff. In interviews with The Jordan Times, the protesters charged that the decision targeted employees who do not share the same political leanings as the majority of the council, and only included members of the so-called “Green List”, who comprise leftists and pan-Arabists. The current JEA council is dominated by Islamists, who won the elections in May 2012. Over the past few decades, the 100,000-member JEA has played a key role in the Kingdom’s political life. Workers union gives Amman municipality one week before going on strike.
فيديو: اعتصام متقاعدي الفوسفات | Video: Phosphate Company Retirees Sit-In. Pro-reformers, teachers join forces in Friday demos. AMMAN — Dozens of leftist activists and educators rallied in downtown Amman on Friday in a show of support for public schoolteachers’ nationwide work stoppage. In a so-called “Friday in Support of Teachers and Tenants”, some 40 youth and leftist activists joined forces with educators to support teachers’ demands for a raise in wages, a cause they claim is at the heart of the pro-reform drive. “There are over 150,000 teachers across the country who are struggling to make ends meet,” said Assam Al Khawaja, Popular Youth Movement organiser and assistant secretary general of the leftist Wihda Party. “Education is a service for all Jordanians, which makes the teachers’ cause a national cause and one that has been a priority for the pro-reform movement since day one.”
During the one-hour rally, which featured a heavy security presence, participants chanted “the teachers want their rights” and “where did their wages go?” Gov’t-teachers deal to end strike saves face but leaves authorities on tiptoe, bracing for more trouble. — Before children across the Kingdom settled into their seats on their first day back in school on Tuesday, politicians and pundits were already reviewing the lessons learned from teachers’ three-week showdown with the government. While analysts described Monday’s agreement to end a work stoppage that at times threatened to plunge the country into a general strike as a political “draw”, they warned that rather than marking the definitive end to a conflict over government salaries, the midnight deal concluded the first of many battles over increasingly dwindling public funds. After final hurdles over unifying professional allowances for all ranks of educators were overcome and authorities agreed to a middle-ground solution securing teachers a 15 per cent raises in professional allowances this year and 2013, educators hailed the deal as a “lesson in dignity and dialogue”.
“No matter what side you are on, you cannot call a three-week work stoppage a victory.” Social security retirees demand increase in pensions. إربد: متقاعدو (الضمان) يطالبون بشمولهم في (هيكلة الرواتب)