Argentina
UBA teachers and non-teaching staff called a new university march and a staggered strike
The protest was announced after union rejection of the wage offer presented by the government. The mobilization will take place on October 15 in front of the Palace of Courts.
Teachers and non-teaching staff at the University of Buenos Aires announced a new Federal University March and a 23-day staggered strike, after the latest wage bargaining round with the Ministry of Human Capital failed.
According to ADUBA and APUBA, the mobilization will take place on October 15 in front of the Palace of Courts. The unions are demanding that the University Financing Law be applied and that a 32.5% wage adjustment be recognized, a request rejected by the government.
According to Infobae, at the meeting convened by the Secretariat of Education at the Palacio Pizzurno, a 3% increase for September and another 3% for October was offered. The proposal was rejected by all unions.
The conflict is also based on judicial rulings. Infobae reported that the federal administrative litigation judge Martín Cormick ordered last December that the Executive Branch comply with articles 5 and 6 of Law 27.795, referring to wage and budget updates. That same outlet added that on September 1 the magistrate rejected an official request to lift the injunction and that the Supreme Court upheld it on June 25.
In that context, the National Interuniversity Council maintains, according to Infobae, that the Executive Branch has not fully complied with those articles and is moving ahead with a lawsuit against the decree with which Javier Milei enacted the law, although he suspended its implementation on the grounds that no funds had been allocated and no defined source of financing existed.
The protest plan will include rotating measures in different UBA offices and academic units between September 21 and October 22, with visibility activities. According to Infobae, it will begin at the Rectorate and continue through faculties, pre-university schools, the CBC, DOSUBA, institutes and the Hospital de Clínicas.
ADUBA general secretary Emiliano Cagnacci questioned the government for failing to comply with a law backed, he said, by both Congress and the Supreme Court. He also warned about the impact of underfunding on the public university. For his part, FEDUN general secretary Daniel Ricci told Infobae that the Executive Branch must comply with the University Financing Law.
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