This Monday, starting at 8 am, students from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UBA carried out a blockade on the corner of Puán and Av. Rivadavia streets in support of the strike of teachers and non-teachers that will last the entire week and is part of the measures to fight for salary recomposition and the application of the University Financing Law.
The measure was voted on in an assembly of the CEFyL Student Center at the proposal of the En Clave Roja group and had the participation of teachers. In addition, a vigil was voted on at the Faculty during the week, among other measures.
Court in Rivadavia and Púan in support of the strike of university professors in defense of their salaries and for the application of the Budgetary Emergency Law pic.twitter.com/yvU9tJWQud
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One of the slogans they raised is “No precarious teachers, no students without a future.” The reception from the street was supportive with honks and applause from neighbors. This was explained by Luca Bonfante, Secretary General of the Center and leader of the university youth of the PTS, who also expressed “the need to call for a new federal educational march to impose the Law that has already been won in the streets.”
“All centers should be doing the same,” he added. And he repudiated the negotiation between the principals and the government, making grandiose statements but, ultimately, it would imply a salary increase of only 12.3% and in three installments.
Juan Duarte, a Psychology teacher at the CBC of Puan, who accompanied his students at the beginning of the university protest, participated in the cut. “The real salary fell more than 36%… with a huge mobilization we won the university financing law that the government refuses to implement. Law that would allow our salary to be recomposed by 57%”. Teachers, non-teachers and students must fight together.
A salary that today is at its historical minimum. A report from the internal commission of the Teaching Union Association of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the UBA has just published a report indicating that it is 35.6% below November 2023, even 2.7% below the worst levels reached in 2004.
The University Financing Law won in August 2025 based on the 2024 mobilizations, which included takeovers in more than 100 faculties throughout the country and two historic mobilizations, establishes that the current basic salary “should increase by 55.4%.” However, since November 2023, almost a year of unpaid salary has accumulated.
This situation, which becomes unsustainable, causes teachers to have to abandon their jobs due to the impossibility of being able to pay even the minimum expenses to be able to teach. More than 10 thousand calculated the CIN, only until 2025.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
