The "Contractors' Movement" emphasized the necessity of paying their dues and achieving their demands in line with others. They issued a statement on the occasion of Teacher's Day, read by their coordinator, Hamza Mansour. He stated: "Your holiday comes, and injustices and tragedies are increasing and worsening, repeating themselves, while rights remain absent; there has been no monthly payment, no new hourly wage found its way, and the unjust economy is gnawing at our bones shattered by the schemes of traders. There is neither a transportation allowance that covers four days instead of three, nor productivity allowances reaching everyone."
He added: "From within the depths of these tragedies, we release the cries of teachers who dedicated their bodies and souls to spreading the light of knowledge and science, indifferent to poverty, hunger, or deprivation. They work with consciences filled with nobility and selflessness, going to their schools to save the children of the homeland while their own children suffer from hunger, illness, and deprivation. These hearts, filled with the agonies of the tormented, bleed pure blood and inscribe on the conscience of the Ministry of Education and on its fifteen floors a constellation of rights imprisoned in the jails of the government, which are as follows:
- The necessity to activate the monthly payment and to pay the contractors' dues for the months of December, January, and February as soon as possible along with the transportation allowance.
- Increasing the hourly wage for all secondary, primary, and vocational contractors.
- Paying productivity allowances to secondary, primary, and vocational contractors during the summer months.
- Paying productivity allowances to the teachers who have yet to receive them.
- Paying dues and transportation allowances for teachers who have been displaced from their villages and schools for the months of October, November, and December.
- Allowing teachers contracting at the expense of school funds to receive transportation allowances and other benefits granted to contractors.
- Signing contracts for the colleagues who are being helped and converting them into contractors.
- Issuing a decision from the Minister of Education stating the compensation for the hours lost by contractors in schools and vocational institutions in Lebanon due to forced disruption caused by assaults and massacres and sending it to the managers of these institutions as soon as possible.
- Working promptly to calculate four days weekly as a transportation allowance for contractors instead of three days."
