This Thursday 22 at noon an important March of teachers and non -teachers, together with students, towards the Pizzurno Palace (Ministry of Education) In the city of Buenos Aires, convened by Apuba (nodocentes of the UBA), Aduba (Fedun-CGT teachers within the UBA), Feduba (Conadu within the UBA) and AGD (historical Conadu in the UBA). Also the FUBA and the Superior Council of the University were a call for mobilization.
Before the brutal trimming of the university budget that reached 25% in real terms Only last year, and its impact on teaching salaries, non -teachers and investment in infrastructure, The university students took to the streets under the demand of a reopening of the peers and a financing lawtogether with other demands such as the recomposition of the National Teaching Incentive Fund (FONID) and Student Scholarships. If this budget cut of the items to the public university continues, towards the end of the year the adjustment of the same will accumulate between 40% and 50% in two years under the mandate of Milei.
The force measure is added to the national strike carried out by the National Federation of Teachers, Researchers and University Creators (Historical Conadu) on Monday and Tuesday. Tomorrow Friday is planned of university non -teachers from the UBA, to which the teachers of the UBA Teaching Association (AGD UBA) joined.
The university salary is below the poverty line; The difference between inflation and salary variation reaches almost 70 percentage points in January 2025 and a 33% salary increase on the February salary would be required only to maintain the purchasing power of November 2023. Meanwhile, the Government and the CIN try to pass an Argentine system of university academic credits, mercantilizer and privatist of public education.
Laura Carboni, general secretary of AGD UBAhe pointed out to the left newspaper that “we come from a huge march of teaching and non -teaching workers of the University of Buenos Aires with students that was convened last week by different union sectors, including AGD Uba. We consider that it had to participate because it is a channel of expression of the anger and the outrage of the workers of the national universities, even when it is only about the UBA.
The CBC teacher of the UBA and the Carlos Pellegrini College added: “The strong participation in the same show canceled), increase in the budget for the operation of universities, science and technique and an immediate salary recomposition that recovers the loss of almost 40% that from the assumption of this government until last month we have the workers.
Christian Castillo, deputy of the PTS-Frente of Left and University Teacher, It was present in the mobilization: “It is evident that the massiveness and presence of non -teaching workers in the mobilization realizes that the brutal fall that university workers are having,”
“The important thing is that it becomes the starting point of a true struggle plan and a great third educational march that has to be done while there are still classes, because if you want to achieve the sanction of a university budgetary emergency law that includes the subject of salary in Congress, and that in case of approved, the veto of Milei is approved, you can only occur with the emergence of a great movement of university struggle that has as one of its key aspects the mobilization of the students. Key factor in achieving massiveness and getting the claim in the middle of the growth of wage fighting from other sectors such as the UTA and the Buenos Aires teachers. “
The Ministry of Education resolved a salary increase for university personnel of 1.5% in January, 1.2% in February, 1.3% in March and 1.3% in April, well below inflation. That is why university workers denounce that under the government of Milei the salary loss reaches 40%which adds to the deterioration of the previous years.
Poverty salaries: Without considering discounts, a titular professor who works 40 hours per week charges a basic salary of $ 1,300,000, a weekly 20 -hour holder perceives $ 655 thousand. First weekly helpers have a basic $ 184 thousand. In the case of teachers with 15 hours chair that are pre -university, as in the Pellegrini or Buenos Aires, they charge $ 475 thousand.
He Front of the Left has been claiming the budget emergency of universities and the science and technical systemwhich is why the national deputy Christian Castillo together with other deputies presented a project in Congress that, among other elements, postulates the update of the university budget, the regularization of the work “ad honorem”, unique payment for the accumulated salary loss and update of the student scholarships.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
