The meeting held by the UBA and Conadu took place between 1:30 and 4 p.m. in front of Congress. The law has already been partially approved by the House of Representatives and the Government has stated that it will veto it if it is able to advance.
The Teachers’ Union Association of the University of Buenos Aires (AGD-UBA), together with the National Federation of University Teachers, Researchers and Creators (Conadu), held a mobilization today in front of the Congressbetween 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m.
The main objective was to claim for the sustained financing of national universitiesits protection and also the wage recomposition for higher education personnel. The conflict impacted 61 public universities across the country and intensified with the latest days of protest and mobilization.
The call took place in the midst of a 48 hour strikewhich began this Wednesday, and while the Senate was debating the University Financing Actwhich has already been partially approved by the House of Representatives, and the Government has stated that it will veto it if it manages to overcome the legislative process.
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“We are not going to approve a law that implies a fiscal deficit,” said the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos. The strike and the mobilization are a resource to repeat the request to the legislators to give their definitive support to the law, whose objective is to guarantee the budgetary guaranteesboth in salaries and in the expenses required by national universities.
He Higher Council of the UBA issued a statement emphasizing the fall in teachers’ salaries, where they have lost on average between one 35% and 55% of their purchasing power in the last eight months.
“Many teachers are stopping giving some hours at the university to teach them in other areas where the remuneration has been better adjusted to inflation,” he said. Emiliano Yacobittithe vice-chancellor of the university, in a call to the Senate.
What the law proposes and how the strike continues
The project of University Financing Act presented by the Radical Civic Union (UCR), has as its central point to declare the budget emergency of the national university system for next year.
The law proposes a fixed distribution of the budget, where a 85% will be allocated to salary expenses and the 15% remaining to overheads and operation. In order to update the funds allocated to university operations on a bi-monthly basis, the Consumer Price Index.
In the context of the mobilization, the Argentine University Federation (FUA) also carried out today at 13:30a symbolic embrace in Congress. The 48-hour university strike achieved great importance and support at the national level to confront the negative of the Government to discuss the salary increase and the lack of dialogue with the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello.
Source: Ambito
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