We charge half what we did 9 years ago

Following the 48-hour strike two weeks ago, this Wednesday two days of protest actions and forceful measures by teaching and non-teaching workers began at the National University of Catamarca, as in the rest of the country, as part of the union front’s struggle plan in search of a suitable salary increase from the national government.

In recent days, at the national level, the Federation of University Teachers (Conadu), which brings together different teaching unions, confirmed the implementation of 72 hours of visibility that began this Tuesday in the face of “a 4% salary increase imposed for university teaching.” .

The deputy secretary of APUNCA, Gabriel Mazolini, said on Radio Ancasti’s Mañana es hoy that this struggle plan involves all teaching and non-teaching unions and the union front of the national universities.

“The fight plan that began at the beginning of the year due to the drop in our salary, which was resounding.” Mazolini recalled that “in December there was 25% inflation, in January 20% and so on, and we did not have any increase”; It was only in February that there was a 6% increase directed by the national government, which is why “we are demanding an urgent salary recomposition.”

He noted that university workers “have seen a drop since Macri’s first government of 35%, with Fernández 10% and now almost 60%. “We are charging half of what we were charging nine or ten years ago.”