The Federal University March, massive in the NOA

The Federal University March promises to be massive in Tucumán, Salta and Jujuy for having the support and active participation of different unions that are not in the educational field, social movements and political party activists, among other sectors that anticipated their presence. This Thursday is the deadline for the president to Javier Milei go away university financing law which increases funds for education and establishes a bimonthly review of the allocations.

In Tucumanthe concentration will take place in the Rectorate of the National University of Tucumánat 5 p.m., in Ayacucho and General Paz, and from there the column headed by the rector Sergio Pagani and the vice-rector Mercedes Lealwhich will be destined for Independence Squarein the heart of the capital of Tucumán. In the case of the National Technological UniversityTucumán Regional, the appointment will be at the headquarters at Rivadavia 1,050 and before the 18th the column, led by the rector Rubén Egea, will leave for the main Tucumán promenade. For weeks, the teaching and non-teaching unions of both universities announced that they will be protagonists of today’s protest.

From the field of party politics, the Peronist provincial legislators Gabriel Yedlin, Javier Noguera, Gerónimo Vargas Aignasse and Christian Rodríguezpresented a project to repudiate Milei’s imminent veto of the university financing law and anticipated that they will be in the Federal March. Your peers radicals José Cano and Agustín Romano Norri They also announced that they will march, in the same way as in the university protest in April. The Superior Council of the UNT voted unanimously in its last session a statement of support for this afternoon’s mobilization and against the economic and financial suffocation carried out by the Government against the university system.

Salta: The CGT unions pledged their support

He rector of the National University of Salta, Daniel Hoyossaid today on Radio Universidad UNSa, that the protest will be massive. “We march in rejection of the veto, in defense of the Public University and for the improvement of the national educational budget,” he expressed. “For this reason, we urge the national legislators for Salta to support the Public University, especially for the support of our house. There are 3,400 teaching and non-teaching workers that make up the institution, with a student body of more than 40,000 people. We have a university for a very large population, which deserves the best of us,” he said.

The concentration in the capital will be at 5 p.m., on February 20 Monumentand half an hour before there will be a caravan of cars from the university headquarters, located at Bolivia Avenue 5,150. Due to the size of this province, in addition to the capital, there will be demonstrations in the cities of Oran, Tartagal, Rosario de la Frontera, Metán and Cafayate.

The calls were pushed by the leaders of the UNSa Association of Teachers and Researchers (ADIUNSa), the authorities of the Rectorate, the Faculties, the Regional Headquarters, the Institute of Secondary Education (IEM), Graduates and the Student Centers and student groups. One of the most relevant supports in Salta is that of the Regional CGT -which did not happen in Tucumán- which was closed last week when the vice-rector Nicolás Innamorato received representatives of the Argentine Teachers’ Union (UDA), the Single Union of Sanitary Works Workers of Salta (SUTOSS), the Association of Hierarchical Educational Personnel of Salta (APEJSA), the Union of Teacher and Related Workers (SITMA ) and the Tobacco Workers Union. Also present were the representatives of the Union of Workers, Specialists and Employees of Telecommunications Services (SOEESIT), the Pastry Chefs Union, the Union of Minority and Education Workers and Employees (SOEME) and the United Union of Technical Educators of the Republic Argentina (SUETRA).

Jujuy: “The university system is in a critical situation”

He rector of the National University of Jujuy, Mario Bonillocalled on the entire community to accompany the Federal University March that will take place throughout the country. He did so at a press conference in which he was accompanied by the University Union Front of Jujuyto present the Roundtable in Defense of the Public University, made up of the Jujuy university unions and authorities of the UNJU.

“The university system is in a critical situation due to the progressive deterioration of university financing that may have irreversible consequences in the coming years,” he said. “The scenario is due to the lack of updating of operating expenses, which, although there was an adjustment in May, with the inflation rates they were already below what is needed to function,” he said. “But, in addition, this also implied the loss of purchasing power of teachers, researchers and non-teachers, with multiple consequences,” he concluded.

The Federal University March It will gather at 5:00 p.m. in the parking lot of the Faculty of Agrarian Sciences and then tour the downtown area of ​​the capital of Jujuy. The protest will be replicated in San Pedro de Jujuy, Libertador General San Martín and Tilcara, where the UNJU has offices where various courses and training courses are taught.