This was done by CONADU, the most important federation of university teachers at the national level. They are demanding salary increases and defending the budget voted by Congress. When will they strike and what day will the march be?
Following the announcement of the veto to the university budget made by the president Javier Mileithe CONADUthe most important federation of university teachers in the country, called a national strike for Thursday 25 and Friday 26 September and A National University Strike and March for October 2They report a loss of purchasing power of nearly 75% since last December.
They will also carry out the next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday visibility days of the crisis that the sector is going through. In this way, are added to the measures announced by the federation of non-teaching staff, FATUNand teachers’ unions at the UBA who had called for a strike on Friday the 26th. It is expected that other unions in the university community will join the strike.
“We are concerned that national laws on financing higher education, science and technology are not being complied with”pointed out Scope, Pablo Perazzigeneral secretary of FEDUBA, the UBA Teachers Union, and one of the CONADU leaders who voted for the strike measures.
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Teachers’ expectations are set on the new university course. That is why they decided at the CONADU plenary session, propose to the Trade Union Front, which brings together the other federations of the university community, to carry out a large joint mobilization in unity with a strike that emulates the one carried out in April.
Although teachers are not surprised by the brutal cuts to national universities and the scientific-technological system, Perazzi He said that the attempt does “deceive the citizens” “arguing that a country can develop by reducing to a minimum the training of scientists and university professionals.”
“It seems that the government believes that training doctors, engineers, social scientists or programmers is a matter for the ‘caste’ or ‘depraved prosecutors’. The disconnection with reality is alarming,” he warned this newspaper.
Budget: another cut to national universities
The adjustment to public national universities could be deepened in 2025. After the announcement of the veto to the university financing law announced by Javier Milei, the National Government decided to maintain the suspension of the Teacher Incentive Fund and assigned to the universities nationals almost half of the resources they requested, according to the draft Budget next year.
The ruling party assigned to the higher education institutions $3.8 trillion, while the National Interuniversity Council (CIN) is asking to be able to operate $7.2 million.
In addition, the suspension of the Teacher Incentive Fund which has been in force since January and which has provoked complaints from the opposition in the Chamber of Deputies, which has sought, although still unsuccessfully due to differences within the opposition blocs, to pass a law to restore the FONID.
Source: Ambito
