The labor union, with the co-secretary Pablo Moyano at the head, gave a press conference this afternoon to confirm the participation in the mobilization that will take place next week in front of Parliament. “As appropriate, the CGT will give all the support and will mobilize on October 2 “in defense of the university budget,” said the head of Camioneros.
Accompanied by the main unions in the university sector, Moyano He announced that they will be part of the call for next Wednesday to support the claim of the higher education institutions and the teaching and non-teaching staff to support what was approved by Congress and repudiate the budget adjustment carried out by the government of Javier Milei.
“Once again, through the International Monetary Fund, the President of the Nation try to veto again a law in favor of the workers. A few days ago we saw how he vetoed and repressed retirees. The lady (Patricia) Bullrich sends thousands and thousands of police officers and the gendarmerie to repress the Argentine people. That is why it is an obligation to mobilize“, Moyano said.
He also asked the deputies to “Do not betray the workers”“I hope that those deputies who have a historic opportunity to give the education workers the raise they deserve do not betray them. Many of them have become legislators thanks to the vote of those workers. We ask you to reconsider and not give him the opportunity to veto the increase.“, he said.
Second university march against cuts by Javier Milei
It will be the Second Federal University March against the Government after the massive mobilization to Plaza de Mayo that students, teachers, unions, legislators and opposition leaders carried out the April 23 the last to reject the budget cuts that Milei’s administration had implemented, and which he had to deactivate.
The project sanctioned by the Senate obliges to the Executive Branch to update the budget items to cover operating, research and extension expenses at universities, and establishes that every two months the Government must adjust university budgets in accordance with inflation.
In light of Milei’s announcement, not yet finalized, veto the rule passed on September 13ththe organizations that make up the university community also decided to carry out a strike on the 26th and 27th of this month.
University rectors ask Javier Milei not to veto the financing law and call for mobilization
He National Interuniversity Council (CIN)organ that brings together the national public universities, The University of Granada reaffirmed the call for the mobilization on October 2nd through a statement that was released on Tuesday. The text, drafted by the rectors of the educational institutions, calls for support for the claim, in view of the critical situation of the sector.
“With concern for an increasingly difficult context, in the face of the inconsideration and harassment that do not cease and in the face of the deepening of the lack of funding and the de-hierarchization that puts the scientific and university system to the limit of its possibilities, the National Interuniversity Council (CIN) raises his voice again to demand answers and calls on Argentine society to a new demonstration in defense of public education and the Argentine public university system“, begins the text.
In addition, he They ask President Milei “not to proceed with the veto of the University Financing Law 2024 and reconsider the budget project for 2025″ and they emphasize that “There is no problem in universities and in sciencetherein lies the possibility of finding a solution to the problems we have.”
“To Argentine societywho knew how to build throughout history a university system recognized in the world for its excellence, who accompanied with extraordinary mobilizations every time history knocked on its door, our sincere gratitude, and our invitation to do it again“, adds the CIN statement.
Source: Ambito
