However, the Government has already announced that, if it receives the remaining half-sanction, it will veto the initiative. “We are not going to approve a law that implies a fiscal deficit,” said the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos.
“The Plenary of Secretaries General of the National Federation of University Teachers decided to call for a 24-hour strike on Thursday, September 12 and to mobilize Congress during the senators’ discussion of the project that seeks to provide by law the funds destined to national universitiesboth for operating expenses and for salaries of teachers and non-teaching staff,” the Conadu through a statement.
In turn, they announced that they will join the mobilization of retirees this Wednesday in front of Congress, while the debate is being held Deputies reject President Javier Milei’s veto of pension reform.
The UBA community asked the senators to approve the University Financing Law
The UBA Superior Council issued a statement calling on senators to approve the University Financing Law. The document emphasized that “The purchasing power of wages has seen a real loss of purchasing power of around 40% this year.””. In addition, he points out that “the evolution of salaries in national universities is even lower than that of the rest of the public sector workers, whose salaries are also have lost significantly in relation to the recorded inflation”.
For his part, the vice-chancellor of the Emiliano Yacobitti University of Buenos Aires He said in this regard: “The responsibility in this case no longer lies with the president. of the Nation, but of the Chamber of Deputies, which has already given it half sanction, and the senators, who will meet this Thursday 12th. We need them to vote on the law to update the salaries of university professors, because “The situation is truly worrying.”
In line with that, he remarked: “Many teachers are giving up some hours to teach them in the City of Buenos Aires or in the Province of Buenos Airesbecause with the difference in salary updates, they are earning 30% more there. That is something that has never happened, the purchasing power of a university professor, who already did not have a good salary, fell between 35 and 55 percent in eight months“.
University Financing Law: what the project consists of
The initiative presented by the UCR seeks to declare the Budget emergency of the national university system for 2024, with the aim of “to mitigate, in the face of the increase in the costs of essential goods and servicesthe impact they have on the salary commitments and operating expenses of all national universities.”
In turn, the text establishes a fixed distribution of the university budget: 85% for salary expenses and 15% for general and operating expenses. For operating expenses, it introduces a mechanism of Bi-monthly update based on a formula that combines the Consumer Price Index -CPI- (50%)the exchange rate variation (25%) and the variation in public service rates (25%).
Another important point of the project is that modifies article 58 of the Higher Education Lawestablishing new criteria for the distribution of the budget among universities. These criteria include factors such as number of students, types of courses, number of graduates, vacant areas, and research and extension activities.
Source: Ambito
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