June 22, 2024 – 01:10
In the midst of a deep salary crisis that affects teachers and non-teachers in national universities, the conflict between university unions and the national government has reached a critical point.
The Trade Union Front of the National Universities issued a statement expressing its concern and calling for action to demand concrete responses and solutions to this alarming situation.
In the statement, the Trade Union Front highlights that “the decision of the national government to delay a response to the great salary crisis of teachers and non-teachers pushes to deepen the struggle plan of the Trade Union Front of National Universities.”
Likewise, the document emphasizes that “the university situation cannot be resolved only by increasing operating expenses (10% of the total budget), because there is a lack of recovery of the salaries of teachers and non-teachers and scholarships that allow students to remain in the university.” college and graduate.”
Given this scenario, an action has been called to raise awareness of the university conflict throughout the country for next week, as well as a rally in front of the Sarmiento Palace to deliver a petition demanding parity.
In that sense, Fernando Morales, a member of the university teaching union of the province, indicated that “next week a national day of protest will be held on the 25th, 26th and 27th” and clarified that it will not be under the modality of unemployment because the first semester is ending and in the different universities the culmination involves taking final exams.
However, he emphasized that the conflict is becoming more acute every day. “There is no response from the national government. We were arbitrarily given 4%, which we really don’t know how to take, whether it is a provocation or really a mockery” she ironically.
Regarding the meetings they held with the national government, he stated that “we met with the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello, we sent her our request for a claim and yet we were told that the necessary procedures were going to be carried out, so in “Those terms, to tell the Minister of Economy how poorly university workers are paid.”
Finally, he maintained that “since this new management took over, after six months that we are approaching today and are already passing, we have lost more than 60% of our purchasing power. There are teachers who earn between 260 thousand pesos and 800 thousand pesos, all below the poverty line.”
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